In October, Christie's will be the first to sell a work created "artificial intelligence". Mystified portrait of a man written generative-состязательной network, trained art-группой OBVIOUS

Image printed on canvas, — the product of the combination the two "disputing" of neural networks, one of which generates samples and the other selects and rejects. Material for training of the network was provided by the artists groups are OBVIOUS ("obvious" at-английски).

To obtain this image generative-состязательной network fed 15,000 portraits created in the period from the XIV to the XX century. Artificial intelligence learned to paint as long as the special tests has not ceased to distinguish between the portraits made by the machine, from the works of artists of flesh and blood.

"Painted" network portrait signed Edmond De Belamy. At the end of October it will be sold at auction Christie's Prints in new-Йорке. Estimate — $7 000-10 000.

Bellamy — is a fictitious name, a hoax. Belamy — Bel-Ami — allusion to "dear friend" in French. And this "dear friend" — appeal to Goodfellow (translated into Russian — "nice guy", "good friend") — surname of the inventor of the generative algorithm-состязательных networks Ian Goodfellow from Google. The neural network has written 11 portraits of members of the "family Belami". And what-то already sold to collectors. For example, the Parisian collector Nicolas Lahera-Лассер (Nicolas Laugero-Lasserre), which is famous for its collection of Banksy, Shepard Fairey and other graffiti writers, previously acquired another AI-портрет of the same series around $12 000.

See how it goes. But in success there is little doubt. Only one solution to world class auction take to auction, the product AI, obviously, has become a decisive step for legitimization in art and art-рынке radical technological formats.

Material prepared by Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

Sources: news.artnet.com