Ai-Dasits behind a desk, paintbrush in hand.
A lifelike portrait is taking shape.
Ai-Da produces portraits of sitting subjects using a robotic hand attached to her lifelike feminine figure.
Shes also able to talk, giving detailed answers to questions about her artistic process and attitudes towards technology.
But how are we to interpret Ai-Das output?
Should we consider her paintings and poetry original or creative?
Are these works actually art?
Indeed, art never exists in isolation.
It always needs someone to give it art status.
It is always us humans who decide if what AI has created is art.
Indeed, Ai-Da looks much like the quirky title character of the 2001 film Amelie.
This is a woman we have seen before, either in film or our everyday lives.
Ai-Da also wears conventionally artsy clothing, including overalls, mixed fabric patterns and eccentric cuts.
We also talk about her as we would a human artist.
In any case, attributions of creativity never depend on technical configurations alone no computer is objectively creative.
Rather, attributions of computational creativity are largely inspired by contexts of reception.
In other words, beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.
