Artificial Intelligence

This year, arts institutions jettisoned dead-end questions about art made with artificial intelligence – and instead asked viewers to learn how it works

The computer program created by the artist in 1988 functioned as a chatbot long before the development of ChatGPT

Two videos at Gladstone Gallery, Seoul displace their viewers into the role of aides to the algorithm

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