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 ____ that seemed to be a work of Rembrandt, the great 17th-century Dutch painter, had been discovered!
Rembrandt experts from all over the world ____ to view this portrait of a middle-aged man.
They immediately recognized the artist’s vivid style, but thoroughly examined the painting to make ____.
Several hours later, they confirmed, “This is a ____ Rembrandt.”
____ wonderful to greet a new work of this extraordinary artist more than 300 years after his death!
Suddenly, a group of ____ appeared in front of them.
Their representative announced, “This is not a genuine ____ of Rembrandt.”
The experts ____, “With these features of brush and paint, this painting cannot be any other artist’s work!”
The representative calmly explained, “This painting was ____ by an artificial intelligence system through 3D printing.
We are the ____ who developed that AI system.”
The experts ____ them to offer some evidence.
They immediately ____ a video showing the AI’s production process.
Their AI program learned to ____ Rembrandt’s typical characteristics by examining data 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 ____” and produced what 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 more art critics see ____ 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 ____ de 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 ____ in the traditional art world.
In 2022, an AI-generated picture, Théâtre ____ 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 best an imitation of human art, not a true art form with insight into life and ____.
Some oppose AI-generated art ____ it can steal the data of human art without respecting copyright.
In contrast, some artists welcome AI as a tool to create new art ____.
There are ____ those who insist that AI is more than a tool.
They argue that the results of AI creation are ____ beyond human control and AI should therefore be seen as existing in its own right.
____ us look at the mechanism of AI creativity, which is programmed to work in a similar way to human creativity.
Think of the AI ____ of neural networks.
It makes a machine “think,” distinguish, and create in a similar ____ to a human brain.
The machine doesn’t simply follow human orders but learns by itself, which is ____ through a branch of machine learning called deep learning.
This learning process enables a machine to discover distinct ____ from numerous data.
Moreover, AI can even learn established art styles only to avoid ____.
It can then create a ____, unique style.
This pattern of AI creation is much like the ____ taken by major artists such as Picasso and Van Gogh.
These artists trained themselves by learning and mimicking other artists’ styles ____ they found and created their own.
Of course, this does ____ mean that an AI system becomes an artist in the same way that a human does.
Human artistic creativity, which raises ethical, social, or emotional questions through great ____, is not yet thoroughly understood and cannot simply be compared with any AI system.
Even so, we have better and better AI techniques which are able to imitate human ____ activities.
AI has already generated art that some viewers consider more impressive or moving than human ____.
____, we see AI platforms and apps that create pictures, music albums, and novels if we simply provide them with an idea.
Although our question, “____ AI art be real art?”, is still valid, AI can be a powerful source of inspiration and ideas for artists.
AI-generated art will continue to challenge our ____ on creativity in the arts and the human relationship with machine intelligence.