Waiting For the Robot Rembrandt - Issue 57: Communities
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The cellist Jan Vogler famously claimed that art is what makes us human. But what if machines start making art too? Here’s an example of a piece of art made by an artificial intelligence (AI): A bit of art: A computer trained with images of graffiti produces its own art by spraying water onto concrete. The exhibit, titled About a Theory of ‘Graffiti’, was created by the artist yang02 and shown at the Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Exhibition in Okinawa this year.Courtesy of the Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Research GroupOn the right side of the picture is a computer running an AI that has been trained with images of graffiti. It controls a plotting head that sprays water onto concrete blocks, on the left. The resulting patterns are a form of computer-generated (...)