Category: AI History & Origins

Deep Dive: AARON and the Origins of Computational Creativity: An Academic Reassessment of the First AI Artist

February 18, 2026

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Reading Time: 18 minutes – Before diffusion models existed, Harold Cohen’s AARON was quietly making art with AI. This is the fifty-year story the tech world forgot.