Take a look at the paintings above. Five were painted by artists from around the world. One was painted by a robot. If you can’t tell the difference, you’re not alone.
The pieces were commissioned as part of an experiment by GumGum, a Santa Monica-based artificial intelligence company, and the Art & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Rutgers University. The researchers were not attempting to answer whether a machine could approximate a human’s final product, but rather whether a machine could approximate a human’s creative process.
The process, after all, is what makes art uniquely human. For us, art is not an end in itself; it’s a means to communicate a shared experience. Read More
Source : qz