Can an Artificial Intelligence Create Art? Google's Making an AI To Find Out

Despite major advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) in a number of sectors, like the AI that beat the world champion at Go, its progress in the creative realm has yet to be fully proven. Once in awhile, news about an AI getting shortlisted for a literary prize will come up (no, seriously), but so far, achievements and milestones in the arts are few and far between. Alas, we don't have a fantastic robot-Picasso just yet, but Google is working to fix that. They just announced Magenta--a research project that will explore how AI can be used to produce art. According to a member of the research team, the group will first study what algorithms will be able to generate music.