{"id":6372,"date":"2017-08-09T06:18:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T13:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=6372"},"modified":"2017-08-09T06:18:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T13:18:24","slug":"wednesdays-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=6372","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday’s Question"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Relax! A day without politics. And a topic that will be of consequence only for those who make, consume, like or despise art.<\/p>\n

Here is the newest finding in the ever-expanding \u00a0effort to show that humans and computers will be alike, whenever.<\/p>\n

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A team of computer scientists at Rutgers University has exposed computers to 80.000 or so visual artworks from the 15th to the 20th century. They took them in, learned about them and eventually were asked to generate paintings themselves. In other words, they asked machines to display creativity without a human mind attached. You ask, how good could that possibly be?<\/p>\n

Quite good, it looks like. When you show these AI paintings intermixed with paintings from famous abstract expressionist and those by artists shown at the most prestigious artfair in 2016, Art Basel, and ask people to rank them, guess what. People largely prefer the computer generated images over those made by humans, and many even thought that the modern Art Basel stuff was computer generated, when it wasn’t.<\/p>\n

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Do computers make art, then? The machines did not just emulate classic paintings, they most definitely deviated from them, all the while still having some “sense” of what is aesthetically appealing. As the scientists put it: “The fact that subjects found the images generated by the machine intentional, visually structured, communicative, and inspiring, with similar, or even higher levels, compared to actual human art, indicates that subjects see these images as art!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

And their market value seems to confirm that – the Rutgers team has been approached by private collectors and galleries who are quite interested in purchasing these art works.<\/p>\n

Humans Prefer Computer-Generated Paintings to Those at Art Basel<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n