1943 is an intellectual-context marker selected by the research master, not a claim that AI art began in that year. Early neural computation, cybernetics, computer art and later machine learning are not interchangeable. Their differences matter; this genealogy does not treat them as a single, inevitable progression toward present-day generative AI.
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ANTI-AI ARCHIVE. Why begin in 1943?. https://salondesrefuses.cn/en/art-history/guides/scope
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