Lesson 4 When Art Meets Technology
Artificial Intelligence and the Arts
On March 13, 2016, an incident occurred that thrilled the contemporary art ____.
An unknown painting that seemed to be a work of Rembrandt, the ____ 17th-century Dutch painter, had been discovered!
Rembrandt experts ____ all over the world gathered to view this portrait of a middle-aged man.
They immediately recognized the artist’s ____ style, but thoroughly examined the painting to make sure.
Several hours ____, they confirmed, “This is a genuine Rembrandt.”
How ____ to greet a new work of this extraordinary artist more than 300 years after his death!
Suddenly,
Suddenly, a ____ of people appeared in front of them.
Their representative announced, “This is ____ a genuine work of Rembrandt.”
The experts protested, “With these ____ of brush and paint, this painting cannot be any other artist’s work!”
The representative calmly explained, “This painting was created by an artificial intelligence ____ through 3D printing.
We are the engineers who ____ that AI system.”
The experts asked them to offer some ____.
They immediately presented a video showing the ____ production process.
Their AI program learned to imitate Rembrandt’s typical characteristics by examining ____ from his 346 works.
It was then given the order “Make a portrait of a Caucasian male, 30 to 40 years old, with facial hair, in dark clothing with a collar, wearing a hat, and facing to the right” and ____ what seemed to be a genuine Rembrandt.
The experts were ____.
This was just one of the events
This was just one of the ____ that provoked the question: “Can AI art be real art?”
This question is ____, but more and more art critics see AI-generated artworks as a new field of art, just as photography eventually came to be seen as art rather than technology more than a century ago.
In 2018, a portrait created by AI was sold for nearly ____ a million dollars.
The painting, Portrait of Edmond de Belamy, was ____ by an art group, using an algorithm and a data bank of 15,000 portraits.
This sale helped AI artworks ____ more accepted in the traditional art world.
In 2022, an AI-generated picture, Théâtre D’opéra Spatial, won first prize in the ____ State Fair’s art contest.
Since then, more and ____ AI-generated artworks have been exhibited in art galleries.
There are different views of AI art.
To many ____, it is at best an imitation of human art, not a true art form with insight into life and society.
Some oppose AI-generated ____ because it can steal the data of human art without respecting copyright.
In contrast, some artists ____ AI as a tool to create new art forms.
There are also those who ____ that AI is more than a tool.
They argue that the results of AI creation are largely beyond human control and AI should therefore be seen as ____ in its own right.
Let us look at the mechanism of AI creativity, which is programmed to work in a ____ way to human creativity.
Think of the AI ____ of neural networks.
It ____ a machine “think,” distinguish, and create in a similar way to a human brain.
The machine doesn’t simply follow human orders but learns by itself, which is done through a branch of machine learning ____ deep learning.
This learning ____ enables a machine to discover distinct patterns from numerous data.
____, AI can even learn established art styles only to avoid them.
It can then create a new, ____ style.
This pattern of AI creation is
This pattern of AI creation is much like the path taken by major ____ such as Picasso and Van Gogh.
These artists trained themselves by learning and mimicking other artists’ ____ until they found and created their own.
Of course, this does not mean that an AI system ____ an artist in the same way that a human does.
Human artistic creativity, which raises ethical, social, or emotional questions through ____ art, is not yet thoroughly understood and cannot simply be compared with any AI system.
Even so, we have better and ____ AI techniques which are able to imitate human creative activities.
AI has already generated art that some viewers consider more impressive or moving than human ____.
Now, we see AI platforms and apps that create pictures, music albums, and novels if we simply provide ____ with an idea.
Although our question, “Can AI art be real art?”, is still valid, AI can be a powerful ____ of inspiration and ideas for artists.
AI-generated art will continue to challenge our views on creativity in the arts and the human relationship with ____ intelligence.