or anyone who’s ever worked in a large organization, this kind of message will be depressingly familiar: “Do you have capacity to cascade the following
Is this weird Franken-picture really art?
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The portrait looks like the sort of blurry image of a criminal you might see on the TV news. Or an oil painting that has been rained on, reducing the features to mush. But it is, in fact, the world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) artwork to be auctioned. It fetched an astonishing $432,500 in 2018.
Portrait of Edmond de Belamy started a fierce debate, initially within the art community but then expanding to, of all places, evolutionary biology, prompting the question: can computers make art?