“ That's a very Hollywood interpretation. Obviously a machine can be an artist, because humans are also machines (unless you're arguing for the supernatural).”

“ That's a very Hollywood interpretation. Obviously a machine can be an artist, because humans are also machines (unless you're arguing for the supernatural).” You assert that humans and “machines” are equivalent as though it’s some known fact that all rational beings would agree with but I think this is rather far from the truth. I think most people would take issue with your assertion that humans and machines are one and the same. Human beings show actions, behaviors, emotions which don’t appear to be replicated in any “machine” and we don’t even really know how to begin to make machines that feel emotion. Art begins with emotion and feeling, the machines we have built show no emotion and as such they are not making art. What we have right now is advanced mimicry, that is all.