When you think about the way art is created, you might imagine painters, photographers, or sculptors immersed in their work at their studios. But what about a person sitting in front of a computer screen using artificial intelligence and data to create visuals? Is that art? It's a question that is being asked and answered by some of the most prestigious museums, critics, and auction houses in the world. Some artists call AI a revolutionary new medium. Others call it theft. We wanted to see it for ourselves, ...

For some, these are the boom times. 401ks are surging. The stock market has hit an all-time high.But drive just 350 miles from the nation's capital. And the conversation isn't about how to get rich, but how to survive. McDow County, West Virginia, was once the nation's largest coal producer.It is now one of the poorest places in the country where the food stamp program started and later the opioid crisis took hold. Today, one in three households there depends on those food stamps. And now the program that h ...

In November, President Trump announced he would quote, "permanently pause migration from all third world countries to the US after a member of the National Guard was killed and another badly wounded in Washington, allegedly by an Afghan refugee. But there is one group of refugees that Trump administration is welcoming. It's expediting the resettlement of white South Africans, mostly Africconers, who are descendants of Dutch settlers.President Trump says that white farmers are victims of a genocide. The Sout ...

The last minute of 60 Minutes is sponsored by United Healthcare. Coverage you can count on for your whole life ahead. Mike Arusion delivered one of the greatest upsets in American sports history.As captain of the 1980 US Olympic hockey team, Aruzion led a squad of amateurs against the mighty Soviet Union and scored the game-winning goal. We asked him to reflect on the lesson of that miracle on ice 46 years ago today. I think the lesson that our team showed in 1980 by winning an Olympic gold medal, by beatin ...

60 Minutes overtime. >> So, is this always changing. >> Yes.>> You'll never see the same thing twice. >> Like a living living artwork. >> This week on 60 Minutes, we take a look at the world of AI art.Our subject is Rafi Anidol, a 40-year-old Turkish American artist who's considered a pioneer in this art form. to create his art and it all uses data, lots of it. For this piece, he used 200 million photos of Earth.Data from NASA was the driving force behind these exhibits. >> When I think about data as a pigm ...

Drive 350 miles from the nation's capital to McDow County, West Virginia, where affordability is the difference between buying groceries and heating a home. Clean drinking water is hard to come by here. A turn of the tap can look like this.>> This shouldn't be the case anywhere in the world, let alone in the wealthiest nation in the world. ...

In 1975, a young producer named Lauren Michaels created a bold new comedy show that began each week with the words live from New York. Since that time, Saturday Night Live has done far more than just survive. a feat in itself.It has been the breeding ground for generations of our funniest comics. So, we decided with awards and accolades pouring his way to spend some time with Lauren Michaels and his troop to see how they pull it off after all these years. It just so happens that the week we picked to be wit ...

Rafik Anidol invited us inside this space at his LA studio. Every image that surrounds us, Anidol created using artificial intelligence. >> So, those are not real birds.>> Nope. >> Take it in. >> Whoa.>> A hypnotic flow of shapes and colors that can make you feel like Alice in Wonderland stumbled into Studio 54. >> Is this a party trick. >> I don't think so.I feel like it's a new form of art. ...

How would you describe this relationship. >> It's one of siblings, >> and I'm very glad to have siblings. >> We found each other.We We should have been together from day one. >> You certainly and your mothers absolutely were marked for death. You were supposed to be annihilated.>> My mother occasionally would say, "And in the end, we won [laughter] >> because you all survived >> and we have families." >> How many grandchildren. >> I have four. I have two >> I have five grandchildren >> and their mothers liv ...

There is one group of refugees being welcomed to the United States. President Trump says white farmers from South Africa are victims of a genocide. >> These are burial sites right here.Burial sites over a thousand of white farmers. >> We went to South Africa to see for ourselves. >> It definitely wasn't a burial site.I mean those crosses were there for less than 48 hours. ...