AARON is a series of autonomous art-generating computer programs created by artist Harold Cohen from 1972 to the 2010s, evolving from abstract drawings to representational imagery with color capabilities. The software produced original artwork using various plotting and printing machines, with development implemented in C and later Lisp, though it remained closed-source and ended with Cohen's death in 2016.
A British startup called Worldmodeldata is collecting video game data to train AI world models, which researchers believe are needed to help AI systems understand and navigate the physical world. Unlike large language models trained on text, world models require visual and action data to learn real-world physics and precision tasks. The startup has licensed nearly 1 million hours of gaming data from studios to address the shortage of suitable training material for this emerging class of AI.