Out of all the classes in school, don’t you think art class is one of the most relaxing ones? For roughly an hour, you can paint, draw and make your own masterpiece without a worry in the world – that’s the charm of co-curricular activities.
But did you know that the latest developments in the world of art are fast combining different areas of study? Art can now be mixed with what we think of as “mainstream” subjects like science and maths.
How? Take a look at this painting.
Portrait of Edmond de Belamy, Image Source: Wikimedia Commons
At first glance, it looks like a regular 19th-century painting doesn’t it? The board strokes of paint and the stance of the subject in fact make it look like a standard portrait. But take a look at the bottom right corner of the painting where the artist usually signs their name. What do you see there?
Instead of a signature, it looks like a mathematical formula doesn’t it? That’s because this painting was made by a computer.
Image Source: Giphy
Can you code art?
The painting you just saw above became infamous for being the first piece of ‘AI art’ that was bought for a huge sum of $432,500. What is AI art you wonder? It’s any work of art that is made by a computer using artificial intelligence (AI). The evolution of computers and technology has made many things possible today. With algorithms, computers can now be taught to draw, paint and even sculpt like human beings! How does it work? Let’s find out.
Teaching creativity to machines
Using AI and machine learning methods, scientists can teach computers a whole variety of things – art being one of them. In a process called generative adversarial networks (GAN), computers are shown a wide range of pictures (think of this as an input to make the computer learn). Based on these pictures, the computer can use its artificial intelligence and learn to make its own image that will match with the input pictures it has seen.
While making “Portrait of Edmond de Belamy”, scientists had shown the computer a lot of 19th-century European paintings. The computer learnt this artistic style and created its own unique rendition of “Portrait of Edmond de Belamy” to match it.
Not just that, but computers can also come up with their own new style of painting. In a series called “Faceless Portraits Transcending Time” a computer was able to create its own artistic style to make portraits of people. Have a look at one of the paintings from this series called “Faceless Portrait of a General”. Doesn’t it look strangely like an army general?
Image Source: AICAN
AI artists (who are basically computer programs) are fast gaining popularity. Let’s have a look at a few of them that have grabbed global headlines.
Meet Ai-Da
Image Source: Wikimedia Commons
A robot made in Britain, Ai-Da can use her robotic eyes to draw, paint and sculpt pieces of art. She can hold pencils and various materials in her mechanical hands and make art just like a human artist!
A poem for your thoughts?
“Learn the last bells of the morning,
My lit palm beautiful and still”
Those beautiful lines were written by Google’s AI software, PoemPortraits. After being trained with thousands of lines of poetry, this software can write its own poem if you give it a starting word!
Is this the end for human artists? What do you think?
Creativity has always been that one area where human beings believed that robots could not enter. The ability to be curious and innovate, and to create art from the mind’s eye has always been considered a uniquely innate human quality. But now with the rise of AI artists, many people fear that this could spell the end of human art. What do you think?
Let us know your answer in the comments section below!
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Comments
Alokendra Mandal
November 29, 2020
I think for a century it may not overtake the human art completely but after that I think it may take over as AI technologies are developing exponentially.
Mourosi Pal
September 19, 2020
Breathtaking news! Who would have thought that a robot would be such a good painter!!?
Amogh Kottada
September 18, 2020
I don’t think the AI robot arts don’t have the same value as human arts as it’s so fascinating that a robot
is painting.
Abhijeet.kumar
September 17, 2020
Good night friends and thanks for providing such information and thanks for make me knowledge full mind
# I keep learning.
# stay tuned.
# stay safe.
# be motivated.
# Keep calm ..
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ABHISAR SINGH ⚡
September 17, 2020
Oh, That was amazing ! Thank you Byju’s for these amazing fact about robots !