Lesson 4 When Art Meets Technology
Artificial Intelligence and the Arts
On March 13, 2016, an ____ occurred that thrilled the contemporary art scene.
An unknown painting that seemed to be a work of Rembrandt, the great 17th-century Dutch ____ had been discovered!
Rembrandt experts from all over the world gathered to view this ____ of a middle-aged man.
They immediately recognized the artist’s vivid style, but thoroughly examined the painting to ____ sure.
Several hours ____ they confirmed, “This is a genuine Rembrandt.”
How wonderful to greet a new work of this extraordinary artist more than 300 years after ____ death!
Suddenly, a group of people appeared in front of ____
Their representative announced, “This ____ not a genuine work of Rembrandt.”
The experts protested, “With these features ____ brush and paint, this painting cannot be any other artist’s work!”
The representative ____ explained, “This painting was created by an artificial intelligence system through 3D printing.
____ are the engineers who developed that AI system.”
The experts asked them ____ offer some evidence.
They ____ presented a video showing the AI’s production process.
Their AI program learned to imitate Rembrandt’s typical characteristics by examining data from his 346 ____
____ 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 what seemed to be a genuine Rembrandt.
The experts were ____
This was just one of the events that provoked the question: ____ AI art be real art?”
This question is unresolved, ____ 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 than a century ago.
In 2018, a portrait created by AI was sold ____ nearly half a million dollars.
The painting, Portrait of Edmond ____ Belamy, was produced by an art group, using an algorithm and a data bank of 15,000 portraits.
This sale helped AI artworks become more accepted in the traditional art ____
In 2022, an AI-generated picture, Théâtre D’opéra Spatial, won first prize ____ the Colorado State Fair’s art contest.
Since ____ more and more AI-generated artworks have been exhibited in art galleries.
There are different views of AI art.
To many people, it is at best an imitation ____ human art, not a true art form with insight into life and society.
Some oppose AI-generated art because it can steal the data of human ____ without respecting copyright.
In contrast, some artists welcome ____ as a tool to create new art forms.
There are also those who insist that AI is more than a ____
They argue that the ____ 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 work ____ a similar way to human creativity.
Think of the AI technology of neural ____
It ____ a machine “think,” distinguish, and create in a similar way to a human brain.
The machine doesn’t simply follow human orders but learns by itself, which is done through a branch ____ machine learning called deep learning.
This learning ____ enables a machine to discover distinct patterns from numerous data.
Moreover, AI can even learn established art styles only to avoid ____
It can then create a new, unique ____
This pattern of AI creation is much like the path taken by major ____ such as Picasso and Van Gogh.
These artists trained themselves by learning and mimicking ____ artists’ styles until they found and created their own.
Of course, this does not mean that an AI ____ becomes an artist in the same way that a human does.
Human artistic creativity, which raises ethical, social, or emotional questions through great art, is not ____ thoroughly understood and cannot simply be compared with any AI system.
Even so, we have ____ and better AI techniques which are able to imitate human creative activities.
AI has already ____ art that some viewers consider more impressive or moving than human art.
Now, we see AI platforms and apps that create pictures, music albums, and novels if we simply ____ them with an idea.
Although our question, “Can AI art be real art?”, is still valid, AI ____ be a powerful source of inspiration and ideas for artists.
AI-generated art will ____ to challenge our views on creativity in the arts and the human relationship with machine intelligence.