Billed as the "world's first museum of AI arts," Dataland uses wearables and troves of material from the Amazon to merge nature, biometrics, and art. "I think we are literally in a renaissance," says the artist Refik Anadol, in a characteristically optimistic comment, when asked how he sees this moment in art history, with artificial intelligence ascendant yet controversial as a medium. "We just don't have a name for it yet." Anadol, known for technological installations that probe the relationship between humans and machines, has reason to be happy. On June 20, Dataland, the cutting-edge downtown Los Angeles gallery he cofounded with studio partner Efsun Erkılıç, opened its doors to an eager public.

His new museum, Dataland, is a joyful monument to the technology. Is he a visionary, or Silicon Valley's court painter? Refik Anadol said, as the escalator carried us downward. "We are entering the dream of the machine." Space-age music blared night-club-loud as pictures of birds, plants, and flowers cascaded down the walls. This array was a small sample of the half-billion images--and the hundred thousand hours of audio, including birdsong, rain, and even silence--on which Anadol has trained the Large Nature Model, an A.I. model that powers "Machine Dreams: Rainforest," Dataland's inaugural show. The pictures swooped around and beneath us like a cloud of starlings, and an earthy, slightly metallic smell emanated from the diffusers we wore around our necks, which, along with a biometric wristband, each Dataland visitor receives upon arrival.

Check out my GitHub for a working style transfer codebase. A question I'm sure you never thought of asking. Unless of course you and a friend have just watched iRobot at 4am. Nevertheless, here we are… in a world where machines are dreaming away… kind of. The good news is that you don't need to be worried.

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.