When Sofia Aguirre first got to UF, she experienced a revolution.
The 20-year-old digital arts and science junior had been interested in art as a child, but she wasn’t able to fully explore this interest in school due to a lack of a good art program.
In college, she found the Digital Worlds Institute, a College of the Arts program that combines digital arts and sciences, and she has been thriving there since.
Aguirre is also passionate about upcoming technologies such as crypto, NFTs and blockchain. The development of AI-generated art intersects Aguirre’s two interests.
“This is definitely going to revolutionize the art world,” Aguirre said. “It’s no longer going to be the same as it was before.”
Artificial intelligence is a field of study that uses algorithms and data to create technology that can be used in lieu of human labor. AI has been implemented across medicine, education, social media and more….