AI Is Improving Its Artistic Skills, But Who Owns Its Output?

We were discussing whether computers would ever generate art that matched what humans could create. She took the position that machines cannot "create" anything. I took the opposite position, contending that there is nothing humans can do that machines cannot. This post dives into AI's latest attempts to create art, then examines who owns the output. It is a humbling reality, but artificial intelligence has already matched (and surpassed) us humans in a variety of tasks.