Artificial intelligence software is getting used to create more and more art, and more and more is presented as the AI is the artist. Is this possible? What is it that really makes someone or something an artist? This talk probes what it means to make art, and when technology and automation have transformed art in the past, and what we can tell about the future of art based on AI. Aaron Hertzmann received a BA in computer science and art & art history from Rice University in 1996, and a PhD in computer science from New York University in 2001. He was a Professor at University of Toronto for 10 years, and has also worked at Pixar Animation Studios, University of Washington, Microsoft Research, Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab, and Interval Research Corporation.

He is an Affiliate Professor at University of Washington, an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and the Editor-in-Chief of Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision.

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