New exhibition addresses the blurring of the lines between humanity and the digital world
Last year, Google hosted a charity auction in San Francisco. Up for grabs were 29 works of art. The prices commanded were unexceptional, the most expensive piece sold for just $8,000. In normal circumstances the event may well have got lost in the mists of time. Only, there was something altogether unusual about the work on show. It was all created by computers.
The paintings, described as looking like a computer’s dreams, were created through a process dubbed ‘Inceptionism’. As part of their research into artificial intelligence, Google fed a large number of images into a computer network.
