Harold Cohen AARON - computer art — Kate Vass Galerie.
Harold Cohen (1928 – 2016) explored AI and art for nearly 50 years before we saw the rising popularity of these new machine learning tools. In those five decades, Cohen worked on a single program called Aaron that involved teaching a robot to create drawings. Aaron’s education took a similar pa
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Ah yes.
One may admire an example of Aaron’s artwork on this book
Empirical Methods for Artificial Intelligence by Paul R. Cohen in 1995 (not 2017 as the MIT Press suggests; also 65 USD for the paperback is kinda solid)
The book is an introduction to statistical thinking and analysis to help in deciding whether your newly invented AI algorithm is actually any good.
The book cover flap says:
“Meryl” is a line drawing generated by AARON, an autonomous art-making program written by Harold Cohen. Painting by Harold Cohen. Photo (c) by Becky Cohen. Courtesy of Robert and Deborah Henderl.
