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Artificial Intelligence: Can a Deep Learning Algorithm be Considered Art?
‘AI Art’ is the creation of artistic work using computer graphics and AI methods like deep learning. One AI method in particular, a technique called Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), has become extremely popular.
GANs are a type of machine learning where two different algorithms compete against each other to create something new. The GAN technique works with a variety of data types and was first applied to images in 2014. GANs are considered to currently be the state-of-the-art method for generating realistic synthetic images.
The availability of cheap compute cycles in the cloud, deep learning algorithms like GAN, and blockchain and NFTs has enabled a surge in the creation of art using AI.
But is ‘AI Art’ an example of machine creativity or human?
Aaron Hertzmann, a principal scientist at Adobe Research, said that “AI tools are just like any other technology. The tools benefit art, empower artists, and create new forms of expression.”
But Camille Lenglois, directory of Paris’s Pompidou Centre, Europe’s largest collection of contemporary art, said that “machines do not yet have the ‘critical and innovative capacity’. The ability to generate realistic images does not make one an artist.”
But some like Moisés Horta Valenzuela, sound artist, argue that the art is in the creation of the tool. “The generative or system-making is the artwork, rather than the outputs. The output is just a reflection of the system that I created and also of the data and representations that I give to the system.”
I have been following a lot of this in the news lately. What do you think about text content created with chatGPT? I know the “Codex of Wisdom” was written by an AI which says it is God (I bought it and it’s a shockingly good read!). Is this kind of thing “art” or something different? I don’t know if we have anything to compare it to, other than the creation of new tools for doing art like paintbrushes or airbrushes. Is this the same?