The Argentine artist Sofia Crespo, who created the works with the help of artificial intelligence, is part of the"generative art" movement, where humans create rules for computers which then use algorithms to generate new forms, ideas and patterns.
That came almost four years after French collective Obvious sold a work at Christie's titled"Edmond de Belamy" -- largely based on Barrat's code -- for $432,500.Collector Jason Bailey told AFP that generative art was"like a ballet between humans and machines". GANs are sets of competing AIs –- one generates an image from the instructions it is given, the other acts as a gatekeeper, judging whether the output is accurate.If it finds fault, it sends the image back for tweaks and the first AI gets back to work for a second try to beat the gamekeeper.
Crespo said she thought her AI machine would be a true"collaborator", but in reality it is incredibly tough to get even a single line of code to generate satisfactory results.Tech companies are now hoping to bring a slice of this rarefied action to regular consumers. Open AI boasts that its Dalle-2 tool can offer any scenario in any artistic style from the Flemish masters to Andy Warhol.