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Computer Paints Next Rembrandt [video]

3 pointsby michaelmachineabout 9 years ago

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bediger4000about 9 years ago
I was a little disappointed in this. In his strange little book &quot;Imaginary Magnitude&quot;, Stanislaw Lem imagined an entire branch of literature, &quot;bitistics&quot;. This is the literature produced by AIs, essentially. The first such work is &quot;The Girl&quot;, Dostoevsky&#x27;s final work that was never actually written.<p>I wanted MSFT&#x27;s computer to do the same thing that Lem&#x27;s bitistic writers did: visual the entire corpus of some artist&#x27;s work, and &quot;fill in the holes&quot; with material that the artist never actually completed.<p>But alas, MSFT did some of the usual statistical jiggery pokey and decided on a white guy with big pores and a hat, wearing a ruffled collar. Then, they got some other tools to make the painting. Maybe Rembrandt would have painted it, maybe not. We won&#x27;t know until AI is as good as Lem posited it could get.