Artificial Intelligence Program Made Paintings People Liked Better Than The Ones At Art Basel

Researchers at Rutgers University's Art and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory not only created the software, "[they] showed the generated artworks to a pool of 18 people to judge, mixed with 50 images of real paintings - half by famous Abstract Expressionists and half shown at Art Basel 2016." Not only did the panel prefer the AI paintings, they thought that many of the Art Basel works had been created by the computer. (As Claire Voon puts it, "zombie formalism is real.")

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