A.I. generated portraits of Robots:
Recently a new creator has appeared on stage in the form of GAN, or generative adversarial networks, that can generate new images by combining two or more existing images in meaningful yet sometimes surprising ways using it’s A.I. or Artificial Intelligence.
GAN’s algorithm has been used to create these three images by mixing the photographed portraits of robots, sculpted by todays robot designers, with publicly available photos of paintings from the Golden Age and the Renaissance.
The A.I. generated portraits of robots are of Kansei (Robot Science Laboratory. Meiji University. Tokyo), Telenoid (Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories. Osaka University) and Ai-Da (Aidan Meller, UK). These original photos were taken by Wanda Tuerlinckx with her wooden box camera from the late 1800s. Ai-Da herself is a robot painter who uses her AI brain and her eyes to draw, paint and sculpt.
The GAN-based fusion of classical paintings with today’s android robots produces faces that are an amalgamation of artistic styles, cultures, genders and human expressions.
Text Erwin R Boer 2020