Artificial Intelligence is everywhere. From speaking to chatbots to the ads on your social media wall, everything is the work of AI. But if you thought that it was limited to the world of serious business, then you might be wrong.
Humans used to consider creativity and arts, their strong bastion, where only they could rule. After all, art is what differentiates humans from other creatures. But now, AI has forayed into this area too.
The auction house in New York, Christie’s, which is known to have worked with the paintings of Picasso and Monet, auctioned a painting created and signed by AI.
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The AI-generated ‘Portrait of Edmond Belamy’ depicts a slightly blurry, chubby man in a dark frock-coat and white collar. His off-center position leaves enough white space to show the artist’s signature as ‘min-max Ex[log(D(x))] + Ez[log(1-D(G(z)))]. It is expected to fetch as much as $10,000.
A group of three young engineers in Paris fed 15000 paintings from the 14th and 15th century into an algorithm, and now it can churn out its own artwork.
While the painting tries to create a Victorian air, in sync with the work put in by the three engineers, what gives it away is the modern framing of the composition, and the clear signature below the painting, even if it uses the medieval Gallic font.
But these three engineers are not alone. Someone at the Intelligence Lab in the Rutgers University is also teaching AI to observe and create paintings. But what all these scientists are primarily struggling with is the right for their work to be called art. For obvious reasons, the conservatives in the field of art, will not want AI generated paintings to be put in the same class as Rembrandt and Van Gogh.
But then art is art, whether created by humans or machines. So, as the first painting went under the hammer, AI seems to have opened new doors in the world of art.
