Can robots make art? Sort of. A type of artificial intelligence known as generative AI can produce images, songs, and other content. These tools use machine learning to analyze lots of existing content that people have made. The AI models can then use what they “learned” to produce new content, like this image of a robot painting.

Generative AI has stirred up a lot of controversy. But what is it and how does it work? Read this explainer that I wrote for Science News Explores.

Explainer: What is generative AI?

All types of bots are emerging to create images, computer code, articles, ads, songs and more

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