Artificial intelligence is on the march. Advancements in the cutting-edge tech have shaken up fields from security to disease detection. AI has even sent the best human Go players packing. But what about more creative pursuits? CGTN's Mark Niu looks at whether artificial intelligence can make headway in the worlds of music and art.

Is this the future of music composition? Snap a rhythm and create the drum beats. Then hum whatever tune is on your mind. The newly launched version of the app Humtap is using artificial intelligence to help anyone literally create music in seconds.

TAMER RASHAD FOUNDER & CEO OF HUMTAP "Very few people, even a fraction of one percent create the popular music the masses listen too. With this kind of technology, it brings more and more people to be able to create music and to be able to express themselves."

But should songwriters fear AI?

TAMER RASHAD FOUNDER & CEO OF HUMTAP "I think this would really help songwriters to focus on what machines cannot do. And improve the quality there. It will expand, enhance, expedite the speed. Bring more content, more creativity, and the more you free yourself from the mundane, that really leads people to be more creative in other areas, hence the idea we expect new genres and even new styles to come as a result of the assistance of AI."

MARK NIU SAN FRANCISCO "And you can see some samples here of a little humming that ends up in the form of a Metallica tune. Or here's another where humming takes the form of electronic dance music.  But that opens up a can of worms as to who owns the copyright -- you, the artist that influenced it, or the AI that helped generate it."

The lines of artistry are also beginning to blur at Gray Area - an incubator program where art and technology combine. Artist and programmer Cynthia Hua is using a robot to draw artwork that was created by artificial intelligence. The AI program has the ability to start drawing a cloud and decide on its own how to finish as an animal.

CYNTHIA HUA ARTIST & COMPUTER PROGRAMMER "I think where we are now is the early stages. And a lot of the generation does feel very child-like in the way it progresses. And I like that aesthetic because it almost infuses the work with a sense of wonder."

And it does get better - compare the AI-generated drawing of a cat after a few days of training to this -- when it had a full month to train on cat images. Will AI someday outperform the human artist?

CYNTHIA HUA ARTIST & COMPUTER PROGRAMMER "I would never put them in competition really. I think they are coming from two different viewpoints. First of all most art made by people would have context. And that's something that AI will never have. So I would never as an artist or a writer worry about being replaced by a computer because computers don't live human lives, and therefore the art will never come from that place."

This work of Hua's --- autonomous bots interacting over a map of London - is just one example of why she believes AI can actually help create better human artists. She says AI has the ability to trigger new thoughts and inspiration that an artist otherwise would not have produced on their own. Mark Niu, CGTN, San Francisco.