Lesson 4 When Art Meets Technology
Artificial Intelligence and the Arts
On March 13, 2016, ____ incident occurred that thrilled the contemporary art scene.
An unknown ____ 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 ____ recognized the artist’s vivid style, but thoroughly examined the painting to make sure.
Several hours later, they confirmed, “This is ____ genuine Rembrandt.”
How wonderful to greet a new work of this extraordinary artist more ____ 300 years after his death!
Suddenly, a group of people appeared in front of ____
Their representative announced, “This is not a genuine work of ____
The experts protested, “With these features of brush and paint, this painting cannot ____ any other artist’s work!”
The representative ____ explained, “This painting was created by an artificial intelligence system through 3D printing.
We are ____ engineers who developed that AI system.”
____ experts asked them to offer some evidence.
They immediately presented a video showing the AI’s production ____
Their AI program learned to ____ Rembrandt’s typical characteristics by examining data from his 346 works.
It ____ 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.
The experts ____ stunned.
This was just ____ of the events that provoked the question: “Can AI art be real art?”
This question is unresolved, 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 ____ a century ago.
In 2018, a portrait created by AI was sold for nearly half a ____ dollars.
The painting, Portrait of Edmond de Belamy, was produced by an art group, ____ an algorithm and a data bank of 15,000 portraits.
This sale helped AI artworks become more ____ in the traditional art world.
____ 2022, an AI-generated picture, Théâtre D’opéra Spatial, won first prize in the Colorado State Fair’s art contest.
Since then, more and more AI-generated artworks have ____ exhibited in art galleries.
There are different views of AI art.
To many people, it is at ____ an imitation of human art, not a true art form with insight into life and society.
Some ____ AI-generated art because it can steal the data of human art without respecting copyright.
In contrast, some artists welcome ____ as a tool to create new art forms.
____ are also those who insist that AI is more than a tool.
They argue that ____ results of AI creation are largely beyond human control and AI should therefore be seen as existing in its own right.
Let us look at the mechanism of AI creativity, which is programmed to ____ in a similar way to human creativity.
Think of ____ AI technology of neural networks.
____ makes a machine “think,” distinguish, and create in a similar way to a human brain.
The machine ____ simply follow human orders but learns by itself, which is done through a branch of machine learning called deep learning.
____ learning process enables a machine to discover distinct patterns from numerous data.
Moreover, AI can even ____ established art styles only to avoid them.
It can then create a new, unique ____
This pattern of AI creation is ____ like the path taken by major artists such as Picasso and Van Gogh.
These artists trained themselves by learning ____ mimicking other artists’ styles until they found and created their own.
Of course, this does not ____ that an AI system becomes an artist in the same way that a human does.
Human artistic creativity, which raises ethical, ____ or emotional questions through great art, is not yet thoroughly understood and cannot simply be compared with any AI system.
Even so, we have better and better ____ techniques which are able to imitate human creative activities.
AI has already generated art that some viewers consider more impressive or moving than human ____
Now, we see AI ____ and apps that create pictures, music albums, and novels if we simply provide them with an idea.
Although our question, “Can AI art be real art?”, is still valid, ____ can be a powerful source of inspiration and ideas for artists.
AI-generated art will continue to challenge our views on creativity in the arts and the human relationship ____ machine intelligence.