Despite a banner year for AI art with the release of DALL-E 2 and MidJourney, the fruitlessness of its endeavour has become plain
At once memoir, studio diary and futuristic consideration of artificial intelligence, this is no ordinary Künstlerroman
In further news: Daniel Buren painting slashed at Paris’s Centre Pompidou; Ai Weiwei protests Haus der Kunst’s layoffs
In further news: Nicky Morgan, who once suggested the arts ‘held back’ pupils, is appointed UK culture secretary
Dan Fox meets humanoid Ai-Da and the man who created ‘her’
‘After Kurzweil’s book landed with a thud in the centre of our culture, it was impossible not to address its claims’
Misidentifying Van Gogh, the missing female rock stars, and misusing interns: what to read this weekend
A 20-artist group show at MAXXI Gallery, Rome, draws lines between surrealism, computer simulation and new forms of algorithmic intelligence
If artificial intelligence were ever to achieve sentience, could it feasibly produce art? (And would it be good?)
Jörg Heiser on the Soviet sci-fi classic Planeta Pur, algorithmic bias and the limits of artificial intelligence
With our increasingly porous objects, ubiquitous networks and ambivalent organisms, why artists are drawing inspiration from extra-human agencies
