A conversation with OpenAI's first artist in residence

Officially, the appointment started in January and lasts three months. But Reben's relationship with the San Francisco–based AI firm seems casual: "It's a little fuzzy, because I'm the first, and we're figuring stuff out. I'm probably going to keep working with them." In fact, Reben has been working with OpenAI for years already. Five years ago, he was invited to try out an early version of GPT-3 before it was released to the public. "I got to play around with that quite a bit and made a few artworks," he says.