An upcoming auction in New York City suggest that the art world might be quick to embracerobot artists . In October , Christie ’s will be the first major auction house to put artwork beget by artificial intelligence up for sale , harmonize toArtnet .
The mark , calledPortrait of Edmond de Belamy , is one of several AI - generate works produce by the French art collectiveObvious . Obvious trained an algorithm using a dataset of 15,000 portraits from the fourteenth to 20th centuries to create aportrait seriesdepicting the fictional Belamy family unit , all mistily in the style of an 18th - century European mountain lion .
To make the series , first the artificial news political platform learned to produce new artistic creation drawing on its knowledge of past portraiture . Then , it prove whether the portrayal it generated could fool a mental testing designed to distinguish human - made painting from AI - generated ones . Obvious knight these two aspects of the algorithm the Generator and the Discriminator .
Eleven of the resulting portraits that passed the test make up a serial calledLa Famille de Belamy . ThePortrait of Edmond de Belamyis the most late oeuvre in the series . ( you may see the resthere . ) Christie ’s estimate that the picture is worth $ 7000 to $ 10,000 .
" We bid to underline the parallel between the input parameters used for condition an algorithm , and the expertness and influences that craft the panache of an artist , " Obvious fellow member Hugo Caselles - Dupré said in a pressing release . " Most of all , we want the viewer to focalise on the creative mental process : an algorithm usually role by replicating human behaviour , but it learns by using a path of its own . "
The piece will be sell during Christie ’s Prints and Multiples vendue , which will run from October 23 to 25 .
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