This may sound ridiculous, but I think this has the potential to be a development as foundation-shaking as Modernism itself. There has been plenty of algorithmically-derived art over the past 30 years, but generative pieces inevitably look like math – they are interesting curiosities, sometimes quite beautiful, but they don’t challenge the mind like any of the major movements of the past 150 years.
This is different because, while still just math, it’s modeled on the processes of human perception. And when successfully executed, it plays on human perception in ways that were formerly the exclusive domain of humans – Chagall, DiChirico, Picasso – gifted with some sort of insight into that perception.
Future iterations of this kind of processing, with even higher-order symbol management could get really weird, really fast.
I'm blown away by this "guided hallucination" technique. It's not a big oversimplification to describe to the layperson as: enter images into neural network; receive as output artwork representing the essence of the images.
I felt the same. I think the main aspect about these images that makes me like them is how everything feels connected, which, is what the AI is trying to find: connections. Honestly, can anyone tell me where I could order large prints of some of these?
Agreed. These are just amazing. Someone linked above to the source images on Google Photos, but even those aren't especially high-res. Would be awesome if Google released the originals.
