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