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Artificial intelligence can now make better art than most humans. Soon, these engines of wow will transform how we design just about everything.
What AIGenerated Art Really Means for Human Creativity
ILLUSTRATION: OFF-SITE RESEARCH FACILITY

Picture Lee Unkrich, one of Pixar’s most distinguished animators, as a seventh grader. He’s staring at an image of a train locomotive on the screen of his school’s first computer. Wow, he thinks. Some of the magic wears off, however, when Lee learns that the image had not appeared simply by asking for “a picture of a train.” Instead, it had to be painstakingly coded and rendered—by hard-working humans.

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