Lesson 4 When Art Meets Technology
Artificial Intelligence and the Arts
On March 13, 2016, an incident occurred ____ thrilled the contemporary art scene.
An unknown painting that seemed to be a work of Rembrandt, the great 17th-century Dutch painter, ____ been discovered!
Rembrandt experts from all over the world gathered to view this portrait ____ a middle-aged man.
____ immediately recognized the artist’s vivid style, but thoroughly examined the painting to make sure.
Several hours later, they confirmed, “This is a ____ Rembrandt.”
How wonderful to greet a new work of this ____ artist more than 300 years after his death!
Suddenly,
____ a group of people appeared in front of them.
____ representative announced, “This is not a genuine work of Rembrandt.”
The experts protested, “With these features of brush and paint, this painting cannot be any ____ artist’s work!”
The representative calmly explained, ____ painting was created by an artificial intelligence system through 3D printing.
We are the engineers who ____ that AI system.”
The experts ____ them to offer some evidence.
They immediately presented a ____ showing the AI’s production process.
Their AI program learned to imitate Rembrandt’s typical characteristics by examining ____ from his 346 works.
____ 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 produced what seemed to be a genuine Rembrandt.
____ experts were stunned.
This was just one of the events
This was just ____ of the events 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 ____ AI was sold for nearly half a million dollars.
The painting, ____ 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 ____ more accepted in the traditional art world.
In 2022, an AI-generated picture, Théâtre D’opéra Spatial, won first prize ____ the Colorado State Fair’s art contest.
Since then, more ____ more AI-generated artworks have been exhibited in art galleries.
There are different views of AI art.
____ many people, it is at best an imitation of human art, not a true art form with insight into life and society.
Some oppose AI-generated art ____ it can steal the data of human art without respecting copyright.
In contrast, some artists welcome AI as ____ tool to create new art forms.
There are also those who insist that AI is more than a ____
They argue that the results of AI creation are largely beyond ____ control and AI should therefore be seen as existing in its own right.
Let us look at ____ mechanism of AI creativity, which is programmed to work in a similar way to human creativity.
Think of the AI technology of neural ____
It makes a machine “think,” distinguish, and create ____ 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 ____ learning called deep learning.
This learning process enables a machine to discover distinct ____ from numerous data.
Moreover, AI can even learn established art ____ only to avoid them.
It can then create ____ new, unique style.
This pattern of AI creation is
This pattern of AI creation is much like the path taken by major artists such as Picasso ____ Van Gogh.
These artists trained themselves by learning and mimicking other ____ styles until they found and created their own.
Of course, this does not mean that an AI system becomes ____ 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 ____ and better AI techniques which are able to imitate human creative activities.
AI has already generated art that some viewers consider more impressive or moving than ____ art.
Now, we see AI platforms and apps that create pictures, music albums, and ____ if we simply provide them with an idea.
Although our question, “Can AI art be real art?”, ____ still valid, AI can be a powerful source of inspiration and ideas for artists.
AI-generated art will continue ____ challenge our views on creativity in the arts and the human relationship with machine intelligence.