When AI tools like Dall-E and Stable Diffusion turned your short text prompts into digital art? Meet Frida, an AI-driven robot out of Carnegie Mellon University that transforms your prompts into physical paintings, complete with bold brushstrokes in a variety of techniques. Perhaps most strikingly, the bot can change course as it paints to mimic the iterative nature of making art. "It will work with its failures and it will alter its goals," Peter Schaldenbrand, a Ph.D. student at CMU's School of Computer Science and one of the robot's creators, said in a video describing the project. Frida aims to explore the intersection of robots and creativity, says the team, which presents its research paper this May at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in London.

You might expect a comic book series featuring art generated entirely by artificial intelligence to be full of surreal images that have you tilting your head trying to grasp what kind of sense-shifting madness you're looking at. Not so with the images in The Bestiary Chronicles, a free, three-part comics series from Campfire Entertainment, a New York-based production house focused on creative storytelling. In The Lesson, a teacher tells students about the monsters that ruined their planet. The team behind the comic used the phrase "Hitchcock Blonde" to describe the story's heroine to AI art-generation tool Midjourney, "and more often than not she came out looking like Grace Kelly," says writer Steve Coulson. The visuals in the trilogy -- believed to be the first comics series made with AI-assisted art -- are stunning.

You might expect a comic book series featuring art generated by artificial intelligence technology to be full of surreal images that have you tilting your head trying to grasp what kind of sense-shifting madness you're looking at. Not so with the images in The Bestiary Chronicles, a free, three-part comics series from Campfire Entertainment, a New York-based production house focused on creative storytelling. In The Lesson, a teacher tells students about the monsters that ruined their planet. The team behind the comic used the phrase "Hitchcock Blonde" to describe the story's heroine to AI art-generation tool Midjourney, "and more often than not she came out looking like Grace Kelly," says writer Steve Coulson. The visuals in the trilogy -- believed to be the first comics series made with AI-assisted art -- are stunning.

You might expect a comic book series featuring art generated entirely by artificial intelligence technology to be full of surreal images that have you tilting your head trying to grasp what kind of sense-shifting madness you're looking at. Not so with the images in The Bestiary Chronicles, a free, three-part comics series from Campfire Entertainment, an award-winning New York-based production house focused on creative storytelling. In The Lesson, a teacher tells students about the monsters that ruined their planet. The team behind the comic used the phrase "Hitchcock Blonde" to describe the story's heroine to AI art-generation tool Midjourney, "and more often than not she came out looking like Grace Kelly," says writer Steve Coulson. The visuals in the trilogy -- believed to be the first comics series made with AI-assisted art -- are stunning.

For years, artist Steve Coulson wanted to make his own comic. "The problem has always been – I can't draw," he says. But in 2022, Coulson published a beautiful comic called Summer Island. The 40-page folk-horror story about a sea god festival features detailed illustrations with a coherent visual style-- all created with the help of artificial intelligence. As AI image generators, such as OpenAI's popular DALL-E and DALL-E2, become more widespread, some forecast the death of human artforms.

Imagine you are in a foreign country where you don't speak the language and your small child unexpectedly starts to have a fever seizure. You take them to the hospital, and the doctors use an online translator to let you know that your kid is going to be OK. But "your child is having a seizure" accidentally comes up in your mother tongue is "your child is dead." This specific example is a very real possibility, according to a 2014 study published in the British Medical Journal about the limited usefulness of AI-powered machine translation in communications between patients and doctors. Sometimes we need American-British translation, too.)