The future Da Vinci is a robot: AI and Artistic Creation

Pop culture is filled with images of crooked robots defying and defeating humans. Dystopian universes depicting raging wars between machines and mankind are legion: Asimov's writings, Hollywoodian blockbusters such as The Matrix, countless video games, etc. As evolved as we are, all of this -- thankfully -- remains fantasy. The funny thing however is that all those universes are offsprings of a human activity that is soon going to be covered by machines: Art. I believe that robots already are able to produce Art, and will be increasingly able to do so when powered by Artificial Intelligence.