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Witness the evolution of an AI painter develop the ability to paint shan shui (山水), a traditional Chinese painting style.

Over 200 generations of training, I taught the generative machine learning model the strokes to create a mountain, the natural lines of a landscape, and the elements to evoke the mystical feeling of nature.

While human apprentices devote a lifetime to reach this level of artistic fluency, the algorithm went from nascent artist to master in days.