After years of quiet percolation, the art world is suddenly waking up to the creative and market potential of AI-generated art. Earlier this year, the Grand Palais museum in Paris staged a show examining the medium, and this month, Christie's announced it will be auctioning off a work made by an artificial intelligence in October. Now, one of the largest contemporary commercial galleries in India, Nature Morte, has become the first mainstream gallery to take the nascent art form seriously. "Gradient Descent," on view through September 15 at the New Delhi gallery, is a group show including works created entirely by computers in collaboration with seven international artists: Harshit Agrawal, Memo Akten, Jake Elwes, Mario Klingemann, Anna Ridler, Nao Tokui, and Tom White. Gallery director Aparajita Jain tells artnet News that it couldn't afford to ignore the field of AI-made art because of how she believes it is going to impact the art world. And while she was initially shocked to find out how far AI has already come in the creative field, Jain wants to dispel the idea that it will replace artists in the same way it is replacing human workers in other fields.

Learning to See: You are what you see is Memo Akten's ongoing series working with Machine Learning algorithms. In this project, he reflects on the data sets that are fed into these algorithms and how they make use question the way our personal realities are constructed. He says, "The picture we see in our conscious minds is not a direct representation of the outside world, or of what our senses deliver, but is of a simulated world, reconstructed based on our expectations and prior beliefs." Watching the results of these machines "learning to see", you start to wonder how the results would differ by swapping the dataset, as Akten does with The Google Art Dataset, images from the Hubble Space Telescope, and search images from Donald Trump, Theresa May, among other politicians. In a way, we get a glimpse into how the world could be perceived if visual history took a different path.