Robot Artist Ai-Da Just Addressed U.K. Parliament About the Future of A.I. and ‘Terrified’ the House of Lords

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Robot Artist Ai-Da Just Addressed U.K. Parliament About the Future of A.I. and ‘Terrified’ the House of Lords

The robot is part of an experimental art project that aims to let the technology speak for itself.

By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Oct 12, 2022

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Artist Simon Denny Resurrects Dead Companies From the Dotcom Crash and Imagines How Their Logos Might Look Today

Stakes in the resurrected Web1 companies have been made available for purchase via A.I.-generated NFTs.

By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Oct 11, 2022

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The National Gallery of Art Just Discovered That One of Its Four Vermeer Paintings Wasn’t Actually Painted by Vermeer

A new exhibition, "Vermeer's Secrets," presents the intriguing possibility that the Golden Age lone wolf may have had an apprentice.

By Kriston Capps, Oct 7, 2022

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Want to Make Some Mind-Blowing AI Art at Home? DALL-E Is Now Freely Available to All Humans

OpenAI also announced that it is testing an API that would allow develops to build on top of the A.I. system.

By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Sep 29, 2022

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‘A.I. Should Exclude Living Artists From Its Database,’ Says One Painter Whose Works Were Used to Fuel Image Generators

The digital artist Greg Rutkowski has seen his style copied in thousands of images created using artificial intelligence.

By Vittoria Benzine, Sep 20, 2022

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Meet Judy Schmidt, the ‘Citizen Scientist’ Turning Webb Telescope Data Into Stunning Images

And see some of the stunningly detailed new imagery of our cosmos she and other researchers helped create.

By Sarah Cascone, Sep 15, 2022

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Will A.I. Usher in the End of Human Artists? Fear Not, Some Say

A.I. art has been banned from some online art communities but it still has many high-profile backers.

By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Sep 14, 2022

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Experts Identified a New Species of Dinosaur After Realizing a Fossil Owned by a German University Had Been Miscategorized for a Century

The new identification gives paleontologists a better view of the diversity of prehistoric life in Europe.

By Vittoria Benzine, Sep 12, 2022

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Meet ‘Loab,’ the Latest Example of A.I.-Generated Art Creeping Out the Internet (Sorry in Advance for the Nightmares)

Is she a digital demon from another realm? Wherever she came from, Loab is here to stay.

By Dorian Batycka, Sep 12, 2022

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What Is Vermeer’s Beloved ‘Milkmaid’ Hiding? Scholars Have Used New X-Ray Technology to Find the Secrets Beneath Its Surface

To complete the study, the Rijksmuseum enlisted an interdisciplinary team of conservators and scientists.

By Dorian Batycka, Sep 8, 2022

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In a Series of Behavioral Experiments, Viewers Preferred Works by Women Artists—But Assumed Works by Men Were More Famous and Valuable

The study shows how gender bias reinforces itself.

By Sarah Cascone, Sep 7, 2022

Olafur Eliasson Has Launched a New Virtual Reality Artwork and Is Minting His First NFT—Thanks to a Commission from $69M Beeple Buyer Metakovan

The work will be included at the Danish-Icelandic artist's upcoming exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi.

By Dorian Batycka, Sep 5, 2022

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