THE ART OF AI (When AI Got Bored of Math and Took Up Art Instead) by Yuna The future looks brighter and more colorful than ever! As every street corner gets illuminated by neon ads for the latest AI-generated art exhibit, humanity finds itself in the throes of an artistic renaissance, or so the AI would have us believe. A world once dominated by paint-splattered canvases and the intoxicating smell of wet clay has been overtaken by AI. Welcome to the era of AI Art – where the only thing starving about artists is their outdated laptops. Where creativity is outsourced, and the Renaissance masters are rolling in their graves, probably generating power for the servers running these AI systems.  The Rise of the Machines It all began innocently enough, with people using AI to touch up their holiday photos or to generate the occasional cat wearing a monocle. But it wasn’t long before AI, with its insatiable appetite for learning, decided it wasn’t content just sprucing up selfies. It wanted