Artificial intelligence and creativity: If robots can make art, what's left for us?

Artificial intelligence is becoming commonplace, from your smartphone and your Amazon account to the driverless cars that will soon grace public roads in Australia. "Art is one of the last domains in AI where there is an optimistic view on how humans and machines can work together," says Dave King, founder of Move 37, a creative AI company. "We're naturally scared of anything where we take away something from people, particularly something as precious as being creative and art, which we associate with being the most fundamental human — that thing that differentiates us from every other species on the planet," he said. "They can only draw on what they've been trained on," he says, referring to the reams of data used to create artificial intelligence. "We always think of Lennon and McCartney as being the great musical creative partnership," McCormack says.