{"id":161720,"date":"2023-04-08T02:23:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T07:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/how-an-ai-drawing-program-shook-the-art-world-in-the-1970s"},"modified":"2023-04-08T02:23:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T07:23:12","slug":"how-an-ai-drawing-program-shook-the-art-world-in-the-1970s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/how-an-ai-drawing-program-shook-the-art-world-in-the-1970s","title":{"rendered":"How an AI drawing program shook the art world in the 1970s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xlhd8iP1hXo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In 1971, artist Harold Cohen (1928 \u2013 2016) became a visiting scholar at Stanford\u2019s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. There, he created a computer program called Aaron to answer the question, \u201cWhat are the minimum conditions under which a set of marks functions as an image?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first iteration of Aaron generated abstract drawings. Later iterations in the 1980s drew rocks, plants, people, and other animals. Cohen\u2019s program was one of the first examples of how AI could be used in creative fields like art.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronshome.com\/aaron\/publications\/how2make.pdf\">How to Make a Drawing<\/a>,\u201d which Cohen submitted to the National Bureau of Standards in 1982, he predicted that advancements in AI would result in a \u201ccultural shock-wave of unprecedented proportions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1971, artist Harold Cohen (1928 \u2013 2016) became a visiting scholar at Stanford\u2019s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. There, he created a computer program called Aaron to answer the question, \u201cWhat are the minimum conditions under which a set of marks functions as an image?\u201d The first iteration of Aaron generated abstract drawings. Later iterations in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}