Lesson 4 When Art Meets Technology
Artificial Intelligence and the Arts
On ____ 13, 2016, an incident occurred that thrilled the contemporary art scene.
An ____ painting that seemed to be a work of Rembrandt, the great 17th-century Dutch painter, had been discovered!
Rembrandt ____ from all over the world gathered to view this portrait of a middle-aged man.
They immediately recognized the artist’s vivid style, but thoroughly examined the painting to ____ sure.
Several hours later, they confirmed, “This is a genuine ____.”
How wonderful to greet a new work of this extraordinary artist more than 300 years ____ his death!
Suddenly,
Suddenly, a group of people appeared in ____ of them.
Their representative announced, “This is not a ____ work of Rembrandt.”
The experts protested, “With these features of brush and ____, this painting cannot be any other artist’s work!”
The ____ calmly explained, “This painting was created by an artificial intelligence system through 3D printing.
We are the ____ who developed that AI system.”
The experts asked them to ____ some evidence.
They immediately ____ a video showing the AI’s production process.
Their AI program learned to imitate Rembrandt’s typical characteristics by examining data from his ____ works.
It was then given the order “Make a portrait of a Caucasian male, 30 to 40 years old, with facial ____, 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 the events that provoked the question: “____ AI art be real art?”
This question is unresolved, but more and more art critics see AI-generated ____ 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 ____, Portrait of Edmond de Belamy, was produced by an art group, using an algorithm and a data bank of 15,000 portraits.
This sale helped AI artworks become ____ accepted in the traditional art world.
In 2022, an AI-generated picture, Théâtre D’opéra ____, won first prize in the Colorado State Fair’s art contest.
Since then, ____ and more AI-generated artworks have been exhibited in art galleries.
There are different views of AI art.
To many people, it is at best an imitation of human art, not a true art form with insight ____ life and society.
Some oppose AI-generated art because it can steal the data of human art without ____ copyright.
In ____, some artists welcome 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 ____ human control and AI should therefore be seen as existing in its own right.
Let us look at the mechanism of AI creativity, ____ is programmed to work in a similar way to human creativity.
Think of the AI ____ of neural networks.
It makes a machine “think,” distinguish, and create in a similar way to a ____ brain.
The machine doesn’t simply follow human orders but learns by itself, which is ____ through a branch of machine learning called deep learning.
This learning process enables a ____ to discover distinct patterns from numerous data.
Moreover, AI can even learn ____ art styles only to avoid them.
It can ____ create a new, unique style.
This pattern of AI creation is
This pattern of AI creation is much like the path ____ by major artists such as Picasso and Van Gogh.
These artists trained themselves by learning and mimicking other artists’ styles until they found and ____ their own.
Of course, this does not mean that an AI system becomes an artist in the ____ 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 better AI ____ which are able to imitate human creative activities.
AI has already ____ art that some viewers consider more impressive or moving than human art.
Now, we see AI platforms and apps that create pictures, music ____, and novels if we simply provide them with an idea.
Although our question, “Can AI art be real art?”, is still valid, AI can be a powerful source of ____ and ideas for artists.
____ art will continue to challenge our views on creativity in the arts and the human relationship with machine intelligence.