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.

Take for instance, Bengaluru-based artist Raghava K K, who is in the US at the moment, collaborating with painting robots, scientists and technologists to create an artwork, six years in the making. Just this week, Terrain.art unveiled India's first artificial intelligence non-fungible token (NFT) art exhibition'Intertwined Intelligences', which explores the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and human creativity. The show, which features international AI artists, is curated by Bengaluru-based Harshit Agrawal who shot to fame with his work'The Anatomy of Dr Algorithm', where he fed images of surgeries into an algorithm and used AI to create Rembrandt-inspired art based on the images of everything from organs to fibroids. What AI does is that it uses algorithms to predict behaviour through patterns. So the more patterns give a machine for a painting, the greater precision with which the requests are processed to get a final outcome.

For the longest time, creativity was believed to be exclusive to the human mind. Artificial intelligence is now redefining'artists.' Applications to develop generative architecture algorithms create exciting work like the Digital Grotesque or AI-generated paintings filled with colours according to one's emotions. These pieces are then sold for record-breaking prices. Additionally, artificial intelligence can produce an artistic impression of photographs using neural style transfer apps like Prisma. Algorithmic art thus can be widely defined as an art generated using a set of instructions, usually using a computer.

The world of experiences is quickly moving towards free-form interactions, be it through voice, gesture or just thought. To be able to'understand, talk and make with' AI is a critical skill today. How does Ai influence such a subjective and human activity as Art or Graphic Design? What challenges does this create for present and future'creators' in the fields of art, design, music, writing and other areas believed to be the domain of'humans first'? Is it'machines next', 'machines now' or are'humanoids' the next paradigm?