AI & Art with Cali Rezo #1: Project & Goals
How we used AI to create abstract paintings… (almost)!
Nowadays, machine learning (ML) is a red-hot topic which is discussed everywhere in various ways. More and more companies are relying on AI as part of their production process, be it in the domain of finance, medicine, management, art… This last application of ML algorithms, in particular, is really interesting to me. And, since the great abstract painter Cali Rezo shares this interest, we decided we would collaborate on a project to study how to apply AI to art!
You may have seen that, a few years back, an AI-made painting was sold for hundreds of dollars; and even now, ML algorithms allow Google Arts & Culture to work on the work of Gustav Klimt and restore colours to long-lost paintings (article in French). Other research teams have designed algorithms capable of generating text that are uncannily realistic, and GPT-3 is now climbing the charts… At the same time, companies like Amper believe that AI can be used to create realistic-sounding music.
All these examples beg the question of whether it is possible to understand and perhaps reimplement creativity into a program. Could robots actually learn to be creative and artistic beings? Is it an inherently human trait, or can we…
