> Another gigantic correct prediction of Gibson that nobody remembers is that he predicted that the AIs would make art. As far as I know he's the only one to predict this. The usual depiction of AI in pretty much all other sci-fi was as only logical, whether benevolent (Lt. Cdr Data

Data painted and performed music: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Data#The_arts

To be fair, his motivation was to become more human. But at least he did have intrinsic motivations that didn’t appear to come from some training.

That aside, there are many examples that long predate Gibson:

Kurt Vonnegut’s EPICAC (1950): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPICAC_(short_story). It also has the motive of a human passing off the AI’s artistic creation as his own.

C. M. Kornbluth’s “With These Hands” (1951): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51531

Roald Dahl’s “The Great Automatic Grammatizator” (1953): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Automatic_Grammatiza...

Incidentally, J. G. Ballard’s “Studio 5, The Stars” (1961): https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/some-dance-to-forget

Once the concept of “electronic brains” was there, the idea that they might also produce art like a human brain can wasn’t far.