After more than a year in development, Lore Machine is now available to the public for the first time. For 10 a month, you can upload 100,000 words of text (up to 30,000 words at a time) and generate 80 images for short stories, scripts, podcast transcripts, and more. There are price points for power users too, including an enterprise plan costing 160 a month that covers 2.24 million words and 1,792 images. The illustrations come in a range of preset styles, from manga to watercolor to pulp '80s TV show. Zac Ryder, founder of creative agency Modern Arts, has been using an early-access version of the tool since Lore Machine founder Thobey Campion first showed him what it could do.

It encompasses many points of view and can withstand just as many or more definitions. As a term, it's ever-evolving, and the boundaries for what can be deemed art continue to get pushed. Artificial intelligence is not generally associated with art, and yet, AI has made its mark on the art industry. The question is, would that endure, or is AI art a fluke? Will AI carve itself a space in art, or will it be quickly forgotten as a failed experiment?

Each passing day, Museum and Cultural Places visitors' lives are subtly shaped by AI-driven technologies. In this smartphone glutted world, there lies a huge challenge for both the Museums and Cultural places to attract visitors. The question arises, What is the role of AI in a Museum? To learn more about visitors, manage visitor experience and collect relevant data for boosting the traffic and developing future growth strategies, Museums and Cultural Places across the globe are using artificial intelligence in several ways. The most commonly used modes of AI are - Robots & Chatboxes, Computer Visions and Natural language processing amongst others. Unlike traditional methods of managing generic data once a year, Museums rely on structured data to benefit both the visitors and the employees.

Bronze is built for precisely for these "non-static, generative and augmented" compositions, using machine learning to expand on the artist's core ideas. It's also a music format that will let artists release these AI tunes to the public. Arca isn't the first well-known artist to make use of AI for a big project in 2019. Holly Herndon, for instance, created her album Proto by teaching an AI (Spawn) to collaborate. Meanwhile, companies like Sony are experimenting with AI to produce drum tracks.

An international research collaborative reports that a systematized AI analysis of artwork produced over the last millenium yields revealing information about historical evolutionary artistic trends. Additionally, the results map well to canonical concepts about styles and periods of art history. Art analysis is usually comparative, and has historically been conducted by individual researchers, which places constraints on the scale of studies. It is impractical for a single scholar to compare more than a handful of paintings at a time. However, in recent decades, a vast amount of historical artwork has been digitized and made freely available, enabling quantitative approaches to art analysis that were previously unfeasible, if not impossible.

If machines can outperform humans at playing games and driving cars, can they also produce better art? A new kind of Turing test aims to find out. Creativity is one of the great challenges for machine intelligence. There is no shortage of evidence showing how machines can match and even outperform humans in vast areas of endeavor, such as face and object recognition, doodling, image synthesis, language translation, a vast variety of games such as chess and Go, and so on. But when it comes to creativity, the machines lag well behind.

Back in June 2006, before any of us needed to worry about whether we were talking to a robot in our daily interactions, it was up to contemporary artists to make people feel vulnerable and confused. That month a friend invited me to see the preview of an exhibit by the artist Matthew Barney at a museum in San Francisco. Regarding the exhibit I'd been invited to, one critic wrote that, while everyone should go see the show, "no one should anticipate enjoying it." Frankly, I didn't enjoy it. Not being much of an art person, I didn't even understand it. I remember a sprawl of chicken-scratch on a very high wall and a painfully slow film set on a surrealistic whaling vessel.

Artificial intelligence has shown what it can do when facing off against humans in ancient board games, with Deep Blue and Alpha Go already proving their worth on the world stage. While computers playing chess is nothing new, an online version of the ancient game lifts the veil of AI to let players see what the AI is thinking. You make your move and then see the computer come to life, calculating thousands of possible counter moves. Thinking Machine 6 is an AI-based concept art piece created by Martin Wattenberg. Rather than making players into chess champions, it shows the AI thinking process.