History
One of the first AI art systems is AARON, developed by Harold Cohen beginning in the late 1960s. AARON is popular example of AI art in the era of GOFAI programming because of its use of a symbolic rule-based approach to generate images. Cohen developed AARON with the goal of being able to code the act of drawing. In its primitive form, AARON created simple black and white drawings but later he began to develop a way for AARON to also paint.
Since 2014, generative adversarial networks are often used by AI artists. This system uses a generator to create new images and a discriminator to decide which created images are successful. Several programs use AI to generate images based on text prompts.
