2023. SF publishers are overwhelmed by AI-generated submissions. Clarkesworld halts pitches.
2022-2023: ‘No AI’: Artists, actors and others organise to resist their work being used without their consent and their livelihoods curtailed by AI.
80.lv/articles/artstation-s-artists-have-united-in-protest-against-ai-generated-images/
2022: The Art of Diplomacy. AI beats many humans at a strategy board game that requires collaboration, subterfuge and verbal negotiations.
www.science.org/content/article/ai-learns-art-diplomacy-game
2022: (Almost) hires a lawyer to defend rights
www.businessinsider.com/suspended-google-engineer-says-sentient-ai-hired-lawyer-2022-6
2022: Writes and illustrates a video game, for sale on Steam
‘Enter This Girl Does Not Exist, a recent Steam game with simple puzzle gameplay that nonetheless signals a massive change that will soon hit the gaming industry. The developer claims that everything, from the art to the story to the music has been generated by AI of some kind.’
kotaku.com/steam-pc-ai-generated-art-midjourney-youtube-valve-1849531585
2022: Wins an art competition
‘A man came in first at the Colorado State Fair’s fine art competition using an AI generated artwork on Monday.’
2021: Writes a play that is performed
2020: Writes a newspaper article (with help from the editors)
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/08/robot-wrote-this-article-gpt-3
2016: (Almost) wins a literary prize
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ai-written-novella-almost-won-literary-prize-180958577/
2016: Writes a (deranged) screenplay which is filmed
Sunspring was written by a LSTM Recurrent Neural Network trained on sci-fi movie scripts, and filmed in a day.
2015: Creates trippy animations
Alexander Mordvintsev’s DeepDream is based on AI for identifying faces and other interesting features in images, made to ‘overinterpret’ and enhance the patterns it identifies
https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials/generative/deepdream
2011: Publishes a poem
https://www.vice.com/en/article/vvbxxd/the-poem-that-passed-the-turing-test
2008: Two computer-generated issues of a poetry journal
galatearesurrection11.blogspot.com/2008/12/issue-1-edited-by-stephen-mclaughlin.html
1972: First version of AARON, Harold Cohen’s art-making program
www.aaronshome.com/aaron/index.html
1968: Computerized Haiku, programmed by Margaret Masterman and Robin McKinnon-Wood
Another early example of digital computers making poetry at the ‘Cybernetic Serendipity’ exhibition in London
www.in-vacua.com/cgi-bin/haiku.pl
1959: Combinatorial poetry is produced by a Zuse Z22 computer, programmed by Theo Lutz at the Stuttgart Institute of Technology
zkm.de/en/artwork/stochastic-texts
1845: John Clark of Bridgwater exhibits The Eureka
‘Eureka, described as simply as one can, is a mechanical device that uses a system of levers, pulleys and cogs to produce a line of Latin ‘hexameter’, or line of verse numbering six words.’
poetrybynumbers.exeter.ac.uk/eureka/
1843: Ada Lovelace’s notes on L. F. Menabrea’s “Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage”
Lovelace publishes what is sometimes described as the first true computer program, and incidentally mentions that the Analytical Engine, if it were built, “might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.”
http://dada.compart-bremen.de/item/agent/687
1757: Johann Kirnberger’s Der allezeit fertige Menuetten- und Polonaisencomponist
Invites the user / composer to roll dice to combine pre-written musical phrases into new pieces.
1677: John Peter’s Artificial Versifying, A New Way to Make Latin Verses
This pamphlet describes a kind of algorithm for generating poetry.
c.325 CE: Publilius Optatianus Porphyrius, Carmina
A collection of poetry that includes combinatorial works, whose elements can be rearranged to generate many possible poems
Compiled by PL and JLW.
AI and art: a few milestones
2022: (Almost) hires a lawyer to defend rights
www.businessinsider.com/suspended-google-engineer-says-sentient-ai-hired-lawyer-2022-6
2022: Writes and illustrates a video game, for sale on Steam
‘Enter This Girl Does Not Exist, a recent Steam game with simple puzzle gameplay that nonetheless signals a massive change that will soon hit the gaming industry. The developer claims that everything, from the art to the story to the music has been generated by AI of some kind.’
kotaku.com/steam-pc-ai-generated-art-midjourney-youtube-valve-1849531585
2022: Wins an art competition
‘A man came in first at the Colorado State Fair’s fine art competition using an AI generated artwork on Monday.’
2021: Writes a play that is performed
2020: Writes a newspaper article (with help from the editors)
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/08/robot-wrote-this-article-gpt-3
2016: (Almost) wins a literary prize
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ai-written-novella-almost-won-literary-prize-180958577/
2016: Writes a (deranged) screenplay which is filmed
Sunspring was written by a LSTM Recurrent Neural Network trained on sci-fi movie scripts, and filmed in a day.
2015: Creates trippy animations
Alexander Mordvintsev’s DeepDream is based on AI for identifying faces and other interesting features in images, made to ‘overinterpret’ and enhance the patterns it identifies
https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials/generative/deepdream
2011: Publishes a poem
https://www.vice.com/en/article/vvbxxd/the-poem-that-passed-the-turing-test
2008: Two computer-generated issues of a poetry journal
galatearesurrection11.blogspot.com/2008/12/issue-1-edited-by-stephen-mclaughlin.html
1972: First version of AARON, Harold Cohen’s art-making program
www.aaronshome.com/aaron/index.html
1968: Computerized Haiku, programmed by Margaret Masterman and Robin McKinnon-Wood
Another early example of digital computers making poetry at the ‘Cybernetic Serendipity’ exhibition in London
www.in-vacua.com/cgi-bin/haiku.pl
1959: Combinatorial poetry is produced by a Zuse Z22 computer, programmed by Theo Lutz at the Stuttgart Institute of Technology
zkm.de/en/artwork/stochastic-texts
1845: John Clark of Bridgwater exhibits The Eureka
‘Eureka, described as simply as one can, is a mechanical device that uses a system of levers, pulleys and cogs to produce a line of Latin ‘hexameter’, or line of verse numbering six words.’
poetrybynumbers.exeter.ac.uk/eureka/
1843: Ada Lovelace’s notes on L. F. Menabrea’s “Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage”
Lovelace publishes what is sometimes described as the first true computer program, and incidentally mentions that the Analytical Engine, if it were built, “might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.”
http://dada.compart-bremen.de/item/agent/687
1757: Johann Kirnberger’s Der allezeit fertige Menuetten- und Polonaisencomponist
Invites the user / composer to roll dice to combine pre-written musical phrases into new pieces.
1677: John Peter’s Artificial Versifying, A New Way to Make Latin Verses
This pamphlet describes a kind of algorithm for generating poetry.
c.325 CE: Publilius Optatianus Porphyrius, Carmina
A collection of poetry that includes combinatorial works, whose elements can be rearranged to generate many possible poems
Compiled by PL and JLW.
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