Artist shows how artificial intelligence sees humans

That artificial intelligence can make our lives much easier, no one argues. After all, just think of your smartphone, which will learn the words you use most when giving suggestions in the auto-broker, among other features.

Robbie Barrat, an artist and researcher, decided to try something new with artificial intelligence: he trained her to study and reproduce classic paintings - like the ones you saw in school that show the naked human body. The results were expected to show figures that were at least recognizable, but ... Well, that's not how the final images came out.

AI produced images that look like molten and soft masses, quite different from the bodies of the original portraits. Even so, the artist believes that these abstract — and, say, somewhat disturbing — forms can impact both art and artificial intelligence. "With Artificial Intelligence, it all depends on the machine interpretation of the data you provided - and in this case, how it strangely interpreted the pictures I provided, " said Barrat.

Here are some AI generated nude portraits I've been working on ??

Usually the machine just paints people as blobs of flesh with tendrils and limbs randomly growing out - I think it's really surreal. I wonder if that's how machines see us ... pic.twitter.com/tYgzCHGfse

- Robbie Barrat (@DrBeef_) March 27, 2018

The process went as follows: Barrat sent images of several nude portraits of a dataset to a GAN - an opposing generative network - and directed her to create her own version of the genre. GANs have two neural networks, the “generator” and the “discriminator”. Thus the generator understood that he should use these abstract forms, and the discriminator did not realize the difference between them and humans.

A follower of Barrat on Twitter asked a very interesting question: who was the artist there? Himself, the algorithm or the union of the two? The answer was very straightforward. For the artist, it was he who gave the rules, and AI simply interpreted them and made them art.

Artist shows how artificial intelligence sees humans via TecMundo