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Whelp, it looks like painting and graphic art is going the way of the dodo...

• ethana 11y ago
  Someone still has to come up with new art styles for the machine to mix.
  • trentlott 11y ago
    Build a database, randomly assemble. Recurse. Use whatever language generator deemed appropriate* to assign proper titles for the newly-evolved art movement. *this may be delegated to a meat-computer, in pity.
  • _yosefk 11y ago
    Before that becomes the main problem, that other problem must be solved where you give it your picture and the Mona Lisa whose style is to be copied and the way it copies the style is it paints her eyebrow atop your mouth. 'Cause it's not like this thing can really distinguish between "style" and "content". What it does is it pastes patches from the "style" image onto the "content" image. Sometimes the result is interesting, much of the time it's between boring and terrifying. It's cool and all, but it's not much more intelligent than your favorite Photoshop filter. "Going the way of the dodo..."
    • lucaspiller 11y ago
      > Cause it's not like this thing can really distinguish between "style" and "content So it's going to be perfect for modern art? :D
      • conceit 11y ago
        No, it can't distinguish because it doesn't know either.
    • amelius 11y ago
      If the rating is more important than the creation, perhaps they should create a neural network with an image as input, and a single signal as output, that indicates on a scale of 0 to 1 how interesting that image is, from an artistic point of view. Alternatively, equip a human with an EEG headset, let them look at images, and take the rating from the output of the scanner.
      • conceit 11y ago
        Interesting is not a value on a one dimensional scale, because the art isn't one dimensional.
• static_noise 11y ago
  ...the same way we don't need actors for movies anymore since we have 3D rendered special effects. /s More likely it's going to become another tool to use (and heavily overuse for some time). The arts will be different but people won't stop being creative. The art of making cave paintings didn't really go away - now they are called graffity and are illegal in most modern caves.
• amelius 11y ago
  Who would have thought that one of the first professions to be automated by neural nets would be that of artists?
• seanmcdirmid 11y ago
  Those pictures were definitely curated. In the near future, this means the neural net is still a tool for the artist.
• ild 11y ago
  Democratize art!