Lesson 4 When Art Meets Technology
Artificial Intelligence and the Arts
On March 13, 2016, an incident occurred that ____ the contemporary art scene.
An unknown painting that seemed to be a work of Rembrandt, the ____ 17th-century Dutch painter, had been discovered!
Rembrandt experts from all over the world gathered to ____ this portrait of a middle-aged man.
They immediately recognized the ____ vivid style, but thoroughly examined the painting to make sure.
Several hours later, they confirmed, “This is a genuine ____.”
How wonderful to greet a new work of this extraordinary artist ____ than 300 years after his death!
____, a group of people appeared in front of them.
Their representative announced, “This is not a genuine work of ____.”
The experts protested, “With these features of brush and ____, this painting cannot be any other artist’s work!”
The representative calmly ____, “This painting was created by an artificial intelligence system through 3D printing.
We are the engineers who developed that AI ____.”
The experts asked ____ to offer some evidence.
They immediately presented a video showing the AI’s production ____.
Their AI program learned to imitate Rembrandt’s typical characteristics by examining ____ from his 346 works.
It 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 ____ seemed to be a genuine Rembrandt.
The ____ were stunned.
This was just one of the events that provoked the question: “Can AI ____ be real art?”
This question is unresolved, but more and ____ 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 by AI was ____ for nearly half a million dollars.
The painting, Portrait of Edmond de Belamy, was ____ by an art group, using an algorithm and a data bank of 15,000 portraits.
This ____ helped AI artworks become more accepted in the traditional art world.
In 2022, an AI-generated picture, Théâtre D’opéra Spatial, won first prize in the Colorado State Fair’s ____ contest.
Since then, more and more AI-generated artworks ____ been exhibited in art galleries.
There are different views of AI art.
To many people, it is at best an imitation of human art, not a true ____ form with insight into life and society.
Some oppose AI-generated art because it can steal the ____ of human art without respecting copyright.
In contrast, some artists welcome AI as a ____ 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 human control and AI should therefore be seen as existing in its ____ right.
Let us ____ at the mechanism of AI creativity, which is programmed to work in a similar way to human creativity.
Think of the AI technology of ____ networks.
It makes a machine “think,” distinguish, and create in a similar way to a human ____.
The machine doesn’t ____ follow human orders but learns by itself, which is done through a branch of machine learning called deep learning.
This learning process ____ a machine to discover distinct patterns from numerous data.
Moreover, AI can even learn established art ____ only to avoid them.
It can then create a new, unique ____.
This pattern of AI creation is much like the ____ taken by major artists such as Picasso and Van Gogh.
These artists trained ____ by learning and mimicking other artists’ styles until they found and created their own.
Of course, this does not mean that an AI system becomes an artist in the ____ way that a human does.
Human artistic creativity, which raises ethical, social, or emotional ____ through great art, is not yet thoroughly understood and cannot simply be compared with any AI system.
Even so, we ____ better and better AI techniques which are able to imitate human creative activities.
AI has already generated art that some viewers consider ____ impressive or moving than human art.
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 ____ valid, AI can be a powerful source of inspiration and ideas for artists.
AI-generated art will continue to challenge our views on creativity in the ____ and the human relationship with machine intelligence.