For years, fears about the disruptive potential of automation and artificial intelligence have centered on repetitive labor: Perhaps machines could replace humans who do secretarial work, accounting, burger-flipping. Doctors, software engineers, authors--any job that requires creative intelligence--seemed safe. But the past few months have turned those narratives on their head. A wave of artificial-intelligence programs, collectively dubbed "generative AI," have shown remarkable aptitude at using the English language, competition-level coding, creating stunning images from simple prompts, and perhaps even helping discover new drugs. In a year that has seen numerous tech hype bubbles burst or deflate, these applications suggest that Silicon Valley still has the power to, in subtle and shocking ways, rewire the world.

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly popular for generating images, a question has roiled the art world: Can AI create art? At bitforms gallery in San Francisco, the answer is yes. An exhibit called "Artificial Imagination" is on display through late December and features works that were created with or inspired by the generative AI system DALL-E as well as other types of AI. With DALL-E, and other similar systems such as Stable Diffusion or Midjourney, a user can type in words and get back an image. August Kamp's 2022 digital image "new experimental version, state of the art" is part of the exhibit "Artificial Imagination" at bitforms gallery in San Francisco. The exhibit features art made with and inspired by OpenAI's AI image generation system DALL-E.

When it comes to creativity, is artificial intelligence a powerful new tool or an existential threat? A San Francisco gallery is taking on this question in a new exhibition: "Artificial Imagination" features eight artists who used A.I. image generators to create the pieces on display. The artists' methods vary: Some fed their A.I. tool of choice phrases to generate their entire piece, while others created illustrations or sculptures based on the tool's recommendations. The show is on view at bitforms' West Coast gallery through the end of the year. From robots that make their own art to image-generation tools that mimick history's greatest painters, A.I. is quickly permeating creative spaces--and generating lots of questions.

A new art exhibition in San Francisco showcases some of the unique ways that artists have begun to incorporate Dall-E 2, GPT-3 and other AI systems into their work -- efforts that go well beyond just typing some text and seeing what pops out. Why it matters: The exhibit, "Artificial Imagination," comes amid a broad debate over the legal and artistic merits of AI-created art, as well as concerns that more powerful computers could take jobs away from humans. "Artificial Imagination" includes a range of work, from videos to still images and sculpture. Between the lines: The artists and curators said the exhibition, believed to be the first of its kind, is an important recognition that AI art is indeed art. The big picture: The debut of Artificial Imagination comes as society is grappling with how to understand the advent of AI art on a variety of levels, from who owns the work to its impact on artists.

We present a novel real-time, collaborative, and interactive AI painting system, Mappa Mundi, for artistic Mind Map creation. The system consists of a voice-based input interface, an automatic topic expansion module, and an image projection module. The key innovation is to inject Artificial Imagination into painting creation by considering lexical and phonological similarities of language, learning and inheriting artist's original painting style, and applying the principles of Dadaism and impossibility of improvisation. Our system indicates that AI and artist can collaborate seamlessly to create imaginative artistic painting and Mappa Mundi has been applied in art exhibition in UCCA, Beijing

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The Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has incredibly evolved over the last few years and is touted to be the next big thing of the future. Making more headway in that direction is Microsoft Corp. who has been investing in multiple projects relating to AI. The tech giant has created a new AI tool which it calls a "drawing bot" using a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) running on two machine learning models. The bot uses the GAN to generate images based merely on a descriptive caption. One machine learning model generates images from text descriptions, while the other model known as a discriminator uses descriptions of text to judge the authenticity of generated images, so that it cannot be tricked.

Ever since computer scientist Alan Turing first proposed his famous test of machine intelligence in 1950, the question of what it means for a computer to think has revolved around one basic question: Can it imitate a human's own thinking so closely that nobody can tell the difference? At first glance, the imitation going on with the latest A.I. creation from Microsoft's Deep Learning Technology Center is of cameras, not the human mind. The bot works to create photorealistic images -- in this case, mostly of birds -- using nothing but text descriptions and a huge repository of similar photographs to draw on. The bird pictured up top is real. The one below is not.

The company says in future its text-to-image technology could act as a sketch assistant to painters and interior designers. With more computing power, Mr He imagines the technology could generate animated films based on screenplays. He added this would'augment the work that animated filmmakers do' by removing some of the manual labour involved.