ART and AI

What’s an instrument?

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Why does a portrait artist get credit for painting a face that he did not create? The face was there. The artist merely transcribed it. Some people are better at transcribing faces than others. Does that make them artists? Apparently so. But why?

A great pianist plays Chopin. Who’s the artist? Chopin, certainly. But the pianist? Apparently so. But why?

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