Artificial intelligence art
Artificial Intelligence Art refers to any artwork created using Artificial intelligence software.
One of the first significant AI artists was Harold Cohen, who began developing the AARON system beginning in the 1960s. In the 1990s and 2000s, Scott Draves and Karl Sims created artworks based on artificial evolution. AI art has greatly developed since 2018 with the discovery of generative adversarial networks (GANs), and how machine learning algorithms could be used to generate images.
Sales
One of the first AI-generated artwork that has been sold was at the Grand Palais at the Salon Comparaisons on February 13, 2018, by AI artist and scientist "ALAgrApHY" [1][2][3]
An auction sale of artificial intelligence art was at Christie's Auction House in New York, where the AI artwork sold for $432,500, which was almost 45 times higher than its estimate of $7,000-$10,000. The artwork was created by "Obvious", a Paris-based collective consisting of Hugo Caselles-Dupré, Pierre Fautrel and Gauthier Vernier.[4][5][6][7]
Examples of AI Art
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Popular artists using AI in their creative practice according include:
- Trevor Paglen - Creativity and AI
- Pindar Van Arman - Creativity and AI
- Refik Anadol - Architecture and AI
- Sougwen Chung Painting and AI
- Wayne McGregor - Choreography and AI
- Lauren McCarthy - Performance and AI
- Mario Klingemann - Animation and AI
- Taryn Southern - Music and AI
- Anna Ridler - Visual art and AI
There quite a number of websites that show online galleries featuring thousands of unique AI generated artworks. In April 2019 the world’s first collection of images produced using AI was published. The collection was produced by a UK based team "AIArtMedia".
Process
"Obvious" uses a two step process to create their art. The first step is the "Generator", the second is the "Discriminator". The process is fed with images of existing art works and the "Generator" attempts to create new art works based on that input. The role of the "Discriminator" is to see if it can spot which works are computer generated. If it fails to spot a piece, that piece is considered successful.[4]
Tools
DeepDream is one of the more well-known AI art tools created by Google. There are many other tools available to artists that enables them create AI art.
Text to Image
OpenAI released a series of images in Jan 2021 created using one of its algorithms "DALL-E". The program can use AI to generate a variety of drawings and pictures based on various text prompts.[8]
Racism Warnings
Artificial intelligence art experts and police have warned against using bad training data to classify people after website ImageNet Roulette let people upload their images. The AI then reproduced the image along with an annotation.[9][10]
References
- ^ "AI + ART + Science - ALAgrApHY". alagraphy.com. January 1, 2016. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
- ^ Février, Tom (February 17, 2019). "Le Scandal de l'Intelligence Artificielle". Medium (website) (in French). Retrieved January 28, 2020.
- ^ "ALAgrApHY au Grand Palais". France Info (in French). February 14, 2019. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
- ^ a b "Is artificial intelligence set to become art's next medium?". Christie's. December 12, 2018. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
- ^ "Portrait by AI program sells for $432,000". BBC News. October 25, 2018. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
- ^ Cohn, Gabe (October 25, 2018). "AI Art at Christie's Sells for $432,500". New York Times. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
- ^ Cohn, Gabe (October 22, 2018). "Up for Bid, AI Art Signed 'Algorithm'". New York Times. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
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- ^ "Playing roulette with race, gender, data and your face". NBC News. September 19, 2019. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
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- ^ "Here's DALL-E: An algorithm learned to draw anything you tell it". NBC News. January 27, 2021. Retrieved January 23, 2021.