Comment by jobigoud

It's unclear to me if you are familiar with GANs, mentioned by grandparent.

A software can hallucinate entirely new photographs that did not exist before of a certain category of objects, like a "dog" or a "burger" or a "celebrity".

Of course it was "made possible" by the human-programmed software, but very very indirectly. In particular, the programmer doesn't really know deeply how it does its thing, and cannot possibly create the same result himself manually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKQp28OqwNQ