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AI Can Help Reconstruct Ancient Texts — With Stunning Accuracy
A new deep neural network developed by an AI research lab and university researchers could help epigraphers restore and date fragmentary inscriptions.
AI
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When The Art Connoisseur Is a Robot
A recent study has found that AI technology can identify an artist's brushstrokes with over 90% accuracy.
Books
Searching for (Artificially) Intelligent Life
Eugene Lim’s novel explores mortality by way of Buddhism, cybernetics, and Asian identity.
News
This Is Not a Cat
These feline beauties were created entirely by an algorithm.
News
See Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch” in Its Entirety, Thanks to AI Restoration
In 1715, the colossal painting was trimmed from all four sides, and the removed pieces were later lost.
Art
Why Do AI-generated Portraits Fail at Realism?
Why do these portraits almost always fall short of being lively or authentic?
Art
How Racial Bias in Tech Has Developed the “New Jim Code”
When machine learning and the use of computers are emphasized in artistic research, in reconstructions, or in beauty contests, viewers often take the results to be scientific, objective, and unbiased. But they are not.
Film
Using AI to Question What Art Is
Lawrence Lek's AIDOL tells the story of an AI composer making music in a world rendered in video game graphics.
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600,000 Images Removed from AI Database After Art Project Exposes Racist Bias
The image tagging system that went viral on social media was part of artist Trevor Paglen and AI researcher Kate Crawford's attempts to publicize how prejudiced technology can be.
Art
Artificial Intelligence as a Godlike Tool for Experimentation
The AI-powered art exhibition Forging the Gods portrays the interaction between humans and machines in a nuanced manner.
Art
Using AI to Produce "Impossible" Tulips
Anna Ridler uses AI to bring "tulipmania" into the future.
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Christie's Sells "AI-Generated" Art for $432,500 As Controversy Swirls Over Creators' Use of Copied Code
Before the auction, Christie's refused journalists' requests for comment on the questionable attribution of the AI-generated artwork. Now, the code's original creator, a 19-year-old working at Stanford, has publicly voiced concerns that the tech group misrepresented their moneymaking intentions.