Video Shows How A.I. Generated Art Can Both Mesmerize or Haunt Your Dreams

Earlier this month, the auction house Christie’s sold what it says is the first ever piece of algorithmically generated art sold by a major auction house. The price-tag — nearly half a million American dollars — has raised a number of questions about the origins of authorship, the novelty-obsessed art market, and, perhaps most importantly: why?

And yet the efforts underway to teach machines about art, or more precisely about images, are hardly a publicity stunt. From being able to better detect deceptive videos to retroactively changing the cast of a movie, computer scientists have a number of practical reasons for teaching machines how to better engage with the visual world.

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