{"id":1182,"date":"2017-11-28T11:29:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T16:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2017-11-28T11:29:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T16:29:07","slug":"machine-made-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/2017\/11\/machine-made-art.html","title":{"rendered":"Machine-Made Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>For as long as there have been machines, I suppose, the question has been asked: Can Machines Make Art?<\/em>\u00a0 With the exponential growth of artificial intelligence this century, the topic is discussed with increasing frequency. \u00a0It\u2019s an interesting question, but there is a supplementary question that I find even more interesting: \u00a0How Much Do We Care About Machine-Made Art<\/em>?\u00a0 To me, there are at least three valid answers: a lot, a little, or not at all.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s an analogy.\u00a0 Household pets have been around for most of human history.\u00a0 Some people develop deep and abiding relationships with household pets, enough to make the question Can Household Pets Have Deep and Abiding Relationships with Humans<\/em> ludicrous.\u00a0 For some people, the relationships they have with their pets are all that they need \u2013 human relationships are superfluous.\u00a0 Others prefer to have relationships with both pets and people.\u00a0 Still others never feel the need to connect with an animal \u2013 people are all they need.\u00a0 And, of course, there are those who would just as soon not connect with anybody or anything.<\/p>\n

Taken in that light, the objective answer to the question Can Machines Make Art<\/em> is what it is, while the subjective answer to Do I Care About Machine-Made Art a Lot, a Little, or Not at All<\/em> is one that each of us can answer accurately and with complete validity, whether by choice or just by personal predilection.<\/p>\n

We can believe that machines will develop the ability to create art, if they don\u2019t already have it, but there is no reason to assume that machine-made art would replace art made by people.\u00a0 Machine-made art could just be one option available to those who prefer it or those who are happy to have it.\u00a0 And anyone who wants art that offers a human point of view, either in conjunction with machine-made art or to its exclusion, can have that as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For as long as there have been machines, I suppose, the question has been asked: Can Machines Make Art?\u00a0 With the exponential growth of artificial intelligence this century, the topic is discussed with increasing frequency. \u00a0It\u2019s an interesting question, but there is a supplementary question that I find even more interesting: \u00a0How Much Do We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions\/1184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}