The robustness of the methodology of this particular study is of less interest than the phenomenon in general, only because of the recent ubiquity of the debate. That is, if people see AI-generated images as art, and are moved by them, then what? What do we need human artists for? For Swedish artist Jonas Lund, DALL·E, Midjourney and other existing forms of AI "cannot be art without an artist … Without an artist, it's not art, it's something else." In other words, just because the outputs of these sophisticated AI systems are images, doesn't mean they're art.

Note to readers: Hello world is a program developers run to check if a newly installed programming language is working alright. Startups and tech companies are continuously launching new software to run the real world. This column will attempt to be the "Hello World" for the real world. At the Emami Art gallery, Harshit Agrawal, 29, will exhibit his work titled'EXO-Stential – AI Musings on the Posthuman.' At first look, you'd think the vivid imagery is solely the artist's imagination.

In an age of conspiracies, here is a striking example, preposterous as it may sound. Highly intelligent robots--general artificial intelligence--surround us, undetected but fundamentally in charge, and human beings are just following instructions that they receive from these elusive entities. Or, a little less preposterously, imagine that the world is alive with consciousness and intelligence, and human thought reflects these processes. Does it sound like something out of The Matrix? The science fiction classic is not science fiction but a parable of something very real--namely, cinema itself. When you enter the dark room of a movie theater, a radical transformation takes place. You become the screen, and the mind that perceives, thinks, and connects ideas is fully contained in the celluloid roll, or the digital file. In a movie, everything has already been perceived in exactly the sequence that it is intended to be perceived; in the dark room, those images leave the hidden mind of the celluloid and get projected onto your mind--they get force-fed into your mind and the minds of the other viewers, where the images and ideas properly unfold.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a wide-ranging branch of computer science that is concerned with building smart machines that have the capability of performing tasks requiring human intelligence. This technology is likely to progress in near future. Artists create new forms of art by using AI while in museums it is used to create immersive experiences. Everyone is curious and talks about artificial intelligence. Today, this technology is in trend.

Mario Klingemann (artist, neurographer, coder, data collector - Munich): That depends on how you define creativity. If commodified creativity like applying Instagram filters, the curation of Pinterest boards or drawing in adult painting books are the bar, then machines can already accomplish that. But if you set the bar higher and define creativity as the creation of something original, that is at the same time relevant to a human audience, then we still have a long way to go. Ultimately, I believe that machines will be able to accomplish that, but just as it is with the definition what "intelligent" means this will remain a moving target and once machines reach a certain milestone, like generate a song, make a movie or write a book we will probably find some explanation why that act was not "truly" creative.

In 1996, Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer developed by IBM, was the first machine to win a chess match against the world champion Garry Kasparov. Since then, artificial intelligence has gone down a rapid development trajectory, now even questioning the divide between technology and creativity. Pushing past the notion of the machine as the extension of the artist, Harold Cohen, former artist and professor at the University of California San Diego, designed Aaron, an art-creating program that can paint still life and portraits of human figures without photos or other human input as reference. Artomatix, founded by Eric Risser in 2013, uses algorithms to leverage the'world's first artificial imagination'. The team at Deep Dream Google has spent recent years'teaching computers how to see, understand, and appreciate our world'.