Google’s Tripply AI Neural Nets Put On an Art Show
Almost every day, machines outmatch humans on some task. They identify faces and places better than us. They beat us a bedeviling board games. Can machines outdo Picasso? Google thinks they should at least have a chance. On Friday night, they did. San Francisco played host to “DeepDream,” an event that its organizers, members of Google’s research and virtual reality divisions, call the first ever art exhibition produced by neural nets — the en vogue artificial intelligence tool that roughly mimics the human brain. The artworks were auctioned off to benefit the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. Google Research and Gray Area Foundation host “DeepDream” Each work had an artist’s name attached, but the humans disavowed credit. “It’s just random noise,” explained Mike Tyka, a Google researcher and the show’s most prolific artist. That…
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