His hands-off approach to the production of his famous balloon dogs and stainless steel rabbits has been criticised in the past but Jeff Koons, the world's most expensive artist, has drawn a red-line: "I wouldn't – for my own base work – be looking at AI to be developing my work." The potential and the risks of artificial intelligence is perhaps the hottest topic in the artistic world, with deep-learning models now able to replicate styles and produce unique compositions on request. It would appear to be a heaven-sent development for Koons, who was speaking to the Guardian at the launch of Reflections, a joint exhibition of his works alongside those of Pablo Picasso at the Alhambra in Granada. Koons's reliance on teams of craftspeople and cutting-edge technology in the making of his pieces prompted the Collector magazine last year to ask: "Is Jeff Koons an actual artist?" Exploiting technological advances is what he does.

The Bored Apes all showcase the same humanoid ape wearing a variety of accessories and disguises; Lazy Lions do the same thing, but with lions; CryptoSharks, at least, have the distinction of being shown in various lurid, vaguely rendered global settings, as if they have been transposed into an acid-tripper's vision of Hollywood or Beijing. I recently received an email about a limited run of NFTs called "Lobstars", which depict "hyper pop" lobsters dressed as familiar works of art, including Andy Warhol's soup cans and Marcel Duchamp's urinal. On OpenSea, the popular NFT marketplace, it is possible to type in almost any animal and find a corresponding series.

This week, the announcements came thick and fast from Google and Amazon. Google Clips and a talking fish that can connect to Alexa make headlines, Snap is launching an augmented reality art platform, and at IBM we've been busy at the Genius of Things event in Boston. Read on for the latest news from the connected world. At a conference in San Francisco yesterday, Google let loose a flurry of announcements covering everything from smart, wearable cameras to new phones. Of the smart devices, first up is the Google Mini – it's got all the know-how of the Google Home, but crammed into much smaller packaging.

For many people, the robot-populated future is a zero-sum game; it's either going to be us or them running things. Headlines -- and not just on conspiracy theory websites -- are rife with dire predictions like "Robots will take over most jobs in 30 years" and "The future has lots of robots, few jobs for humans." Lest one think they will be spared because they are in a "creative" or "people-oriented" discipline, this list should give even those folks something to worry about. "Computer art" -- where a computer uses algorithms to create a piece of art or music -- is an emerging technology. You know it's a serious endeavor when Google gets involved -- as the company did earlier this year with its new Magenta platform, which, according to the company, is "a research project to advance the state of the art in machine intelligence for music and art generation. Machine learning has already been used extensively to understand content, as in speech recognition or translation. With Magenta, we want to explore the other side -- developing algorithms that can learn how to generate art and music, potentially creating compelling and artistic content on their own."