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In 1973, Harold Cohen created AARON — a program that produced original drawings. In 2026, AI generates any image from text. Here's the 50-year history of teaching machines to create art.
In 1973, artist Harold Cohen created AARON — a computer program that produced original drawings. AARON was not an AI in the modern sense. It was a set of rules programmed by Cohen over 40 years. AARON could draw a person and a plant. It could not draw anything beyond its rules. Its creativity was bounded by human programming.
In 2026, an AI image generator creates any image from any text prompt — without rules, without explicit programming. The AI learned to draw by studying millions of images. The journey from rules to learning spans 50 years. 1973-2014: rule-based systems where humans programmed the rules. 2014-2021: neural networks (GANs) learned patterns from training data. 2021-present: prompt-based generation connected language to images. The barrier to creation collapsed from "learn to program" to "learn to describe." The AI image generator you use today is the descendant of AARON. The difference: today's AI can draw anything you can describe.
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