People could not distinguish pictures created by artificial intelligence, from works of expressionists

A team of scientists from Rutgers University, Charleston College and the Facebook AI Research laboratory taught artificial intelligence to create pictures that people could not always distinguish from works of expressionist artists.

According to the authors, the project's task was to develop a program that will not only mimic the existing directions of painting, but will be able to create their own. For this purpose AI was trained on more than 80 thousand pictures. As a result, he learned to see the difference between the works of artists and ordinary images - photos or graphics. In addition, AI was able to determine the styles of painting and distinguish, for example, pop art from impressionism, and cubism from futurism.

Based on the results of the training, artificial intelligence also developed a unique stylistics of its own paintings. On the one hand, they do not correspond to any of the existing trends, and on the other hand they look like works of art.

The authors checked the effectiveness of the program on people who created AI works mixed with paintings by Expressionists and Art Basel 2016. The respondents not only could not distinguish between computer-generated drawings and real ones, but also often gave them higher marks.