[julieturner99]

The linked post suggests that AI art started in 2015 (what it labels as "early forms of AI art"). AI art goes back decades--it didn't start with Google. Perhaps the author might want to look a bit further back than seven years.

[gwern]

Why should he bother with such 'Schmidhubering'? Contemporary AI art owes little to before 2014.

[nl]

There is lots of digital art before them. I'm not aware of any particularly interesting neural network based approaches before then though.