The definition of art

Art, I believe, is anything that we do where one human connects with another. That definition is about to be stretched. Because what is art in the age of artificial intelligence?

Is it art when somebody puts into the computer to make an AI painting? Is it art when we replicate the great works of the past only to tweak it just a little bit? Is it art as long as it transfers emotion? These are all difficult questions. But it isn’t the first time we have faced these difficult definitions. In fact, when Marcel Duchamp submitted R. Mutt (a toilet) in an art show people freaked out. And now we have AI on the scene, now what?

We get to decide what art is and what it is not. And we also get to decide what we value. If it’s made from a human or a machine, it matters. Because of the story we get to tell.