> I’ll use “Final Fantasy 7″ but you can mentally replace that with whatever suits you. The author is not making a distinction between "art" and "programming".

> I’ll use “Final Fantasy 7″ but you can mentally replace that with whatever suits you. The author is not making a distinction between "art" and "programming". The translation of natural language to a program is arguably much easier than the translation of natural language to a work of art (drawings, animations, music, etc.) because there are fewer assumptions about the world that the machine has to make. Also, it's probably going to be very hard to reach a point where natural language can be translated to a work of art, but it's not impossible by any means - just envision a large machine that has all the inner workings of a human brain (hopefully a human who was good at making art). All you have to do is tell it "make something good", and it can do it.