Artificial Intelligence Creates Better Art Than You (Sometimes)

People around the world are using intelligent machines to create new forms of art.

In 2018, in late October, a distinctly odd painting appeared at the fine art auction house Christe’s. At a distance, the painting looks like a 19th-century portrait of an austere gentleman dressed in black. …Our painter is a machine — an intelligent machine. Though the initial estimates had the portrait selling under $10,000, the painting would go on to sell for an incredible $432,500. The portrait was not created by an inspired human mind but was generated by artificial intelligence in the form of Generative Adversarial Networks or GAN. Read More

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