Artificial intelligence art

Artificial Intelligence Art refers to any artwork created with the assistance of AI [1]. It includes works created autonomously by AI systems (e.g. Ahmed Elgammal's AICAN), and works that are a collaboration between a human and AI system (e.g. Sougwen Chung's painting Drawing Operations (Duet)).

AI art has greatly developed since 2018 with the discovery of generative adversarial networks (GANs), and how machine learning algorithms could be used to generate images. A timeline of AI art illustrates how this artistic movement has evolved over time.

Sales

One of the first AI-generated artwork that has been sold was at the Grand Palais at the Salon de Comparaison on February 13, 2018, by AI artist and scientist "ALAgrApHY" [2][3][4]

An auction sale of artificial intelligence art was at Christie's Auction House in New York, where the AI artwork sold for $432,500, which was almost 45 times higher than its estimate of $7,000-$10,000. The artwork was created by "Obvious", a Paris-based collective consisting of Hugo Caselles-Dupré, Pierre Fautrel and Gauthier Vernier.[5][6][7][8]

Examples of AI Art

Popular artists using AI in their creative practice according to aiartists.org include:

You can see more examples of AI artists here, including a gallery of 20+ artists using AI with mediums ranging from poetry to graphic design.

AI ART NET and | Cueva Gallery include several other AI Artists not listed above.

Process

"Obvious" uses a two step process to create their art. The first step is the "Generator", the second is the "Discriminator". The process is fed with images of existing art works and the "Generator" attempts to create new art works based on that input. The role of the "Discriminator" is to see if it can spot which works are computer generated. If it fails to spot a piece, that piece is considered successful.[5]

Tools

DeepDream is one of the more well-known AI art tools, but there are many other tools that help artists create AI art. You can browse a list of tools to generate AI art here.

Racism Warnings

Artificial intelligence art experts and police have warned against using bad training data to classify people after website ImageNet Roulette let people upload their images. The AI then reproduced the image along with an annotation.[9][10]

References
  1. AIArtists.org AIArtists.org: "What is AI Art?"
  2. "AI + ART + Science - ALAgrApHY". alagraphy.com. January 1, 2016. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
  3. Février, Tom (February 17, 2019). "Le Scandal de l'Intelligence Artificielle". Medium (website) (in French). Retrieved January 28, 2020.
  4. "ALAgrApHY au Grand Palais". France Info (in French). February 14, 2019. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
  5. "Is artificial intelligence set to become art's next medium?". Christie's. December 12, 2018. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
  6. "Portrait by AI program sells for $432,000". BBC News. October 25, 2018. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
  7. Cohn, Gabe (October 25, 2018). "AI Art at Christie's Sells for $432,500". New York Times. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
  8. Cohn, Gabe (October 22, 2018). "Up for Bid, AI Art Signed 'Algorithm'". New York Times. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
  9. "'Racist' AI art warns against bad training data". BBC News. September 17, 2019. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
  10. "Playing roulette with race, gender, data and your face". NBC News. September 19, 2019. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
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