This report presents a comprehensive view of our vision on the development
path of the human-machine symbiotic art creation. We propose a classification
of the creative system with a hierarchy of 5 classes, showing the pathway of
creativity evolving from a mimic-human artist (Turing Artists) to a Machine
artist in its own right. We begin with an overview of the limitations of the
Turing Artists then focus on the top two-level systems, Machine Artists,
emphasizing machine-human communication in art creation. In art creation, it is
necessary for machines to understand humans' mental states, including desires,
appreciation, and emotions, humans also need to understand machines' creative
capabilities and limitations. The rapid development of immersive environment
and further evolution into the new concept of metaverse enable symbiotic art
creation through unprecedented flexibility of bi-directional communication
between artists and art manifestation environments. By examining the latest
sensor and XR technologies, we illustrate the novel way for art data collection
to constitute the base of a new form of human-machine bidirectional
communication and understanding in art creation. Based on such communication
and understanding mechanisms, we propose a novel framework for building future
Machine artists, which comes with the philosophy that a human-compatible AI
system should be based on the "human-in-the-loop" principle rather than the
traditional "end-to-end" dogma. By proposing a new form of inverse
reinforcement learning model, we outline the platform design of machine
artists, demonstrate its functions and showcase some examples of technologies
we have developed. We also provide a systematic exposition of the ecosystem for
AI-based symbiotic art form and community with an economic model built on NFT
technology. Ethical issues for the development of machine artists are also
discussed.

本文提出了关于人机共生艺术创作发展道路的全面视角，包括分类划分和创作体系的演化路径，从模仿人类艺术家到成为真正的机器艺术家。通过研究最新的传感器和 XR 技术，本文演示了收集艺术数据所需的新型人机双向交流和理解方式的新颖方法，并基于这些机制提出了构建未来机器艺术家的框架。同时，还讨论了机器艺术家发展所面临的伦理问题，并提供基于 NFT 技术的 AI 艺术生态系统和社区的系统论述。