AI Masterpieces: But is it Art?

It's said that all that needs to happen for something to be considered art is for someone who identifies as an artist to declare it as such. But to most of us, art is created, not just declared and should be delivered with a healthy dose of creative human agency. Regardless of definitions, most of us know art when we see it, don't we? And what does it matter in any case? The short answer is that computer art has been challenging us to confront these questions for over 50 years--the role of the artist (and that of the machine) in the field of computer art has never been completely easy to resolve.