Cynical answer: because art is a field where there is no unambiguous distinction between "correct" and "incorrect", between "good" and "bad". At the end of the

Cynical answer: because art is a field where there is no unambiguous distinction between "correct" and "incorrect", between "good" and "bad". At the end of the day all that art needs to be is "interesting", and that's a much lower threshold to meet than, say, designing a functioning piece of machinery. Upbeat answer: because the current wave of AI is about getting computers to think fuzzily - dare I say intuitively - in terms that make sense to humans. Art is exactly the kind of thing that until recently seemed completely out of reach to our programming techniques, and the fact that computers can now do it at all still holds tremendous novelty value.