<story><title>Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence</title><url>https://distill.pub/2017/aia/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fsloth</author><text>Please take the following as a form of intellectual sparring, and spoken loud hypotheses about art theory.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I processed pictures using the Artistic Style Transfer algorithm and then painted them.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;#x27;t that just effectively painting by numbers? Autotune for visual arts... and it&amp;#x27;s not interesting once one learns to percieve the effect.&lt;p&gt;The problem is that one takes a less interesting input domain, and runs it through a filter that makes it more aesthetically interesting. Once one learns to percieve the common transfer function my brain filters it back into the less interesting input domain. Music and visual arts as well.&lt;p&gt;When digital images became common there was a huge influx of people who ran their images through photoshop filters and called their output &amp;quot;art&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;What one likes, one likes, I have no qualm about that.&lt;p&gt;For me personally, though, that is just tastless, unimaginative and boring. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s because once people use well known domain transfer tools, my brain learns to discern those domain transfers and robs the output of it&amp;#x27;s pleasant features induced by the domain transfer.&lt;p&gt;To provide actual value, the process should make the content somehow more &amp;quot;alive&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;interesting&amp;quot; than just by applying a &amp;quot;trivial&amp;quot; domain transfer, like a well known neural network domain transfer or photoshop filter.&lt;p&gt;Maybe a person should invent ones own domain transfer system, thus not make it commoditized?&lt;p&gt;Many ancient master held their work strictly in secret before it was ready. Maybe, they realized that if the process was known people would recognize it simply as consequent application of various domain transfer functions and the magic would be lost.</text></item><item><author>rememberlenny</author><text>My work is very relevant here.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m a graffiti artist and a programmer. I started using machine learning techniques to augment street art with various nature landscapes (drone images, rolling hills, etc).&lt;p&gt;By using simple techniques, such as Style Transfer, I have been able to create some interesting images that are aesthetically pleasing, but unusual. I took the digital results and painted the contents on large canvases.&lt;p&gt;I recently invested in some GPUs and a new deep learning rig. Im planning on exploring what unique results I can make around graffiti LETTERS, which are interesting in themselves.&lt;p&gt;Take a look!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;becominghuman.ai&amp;#x2F;digital-processes-inspiring-analog-paintings-a358eb7801a0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;becominghuman.ai&amp;#x2F;digital-processes-inspiring-analog-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Toast_25</author><text>I get the feeling you didn&amp;#x27;t read the article rememberinglenny posted about his techniques, or maybe you haven&amp;#x27;t painted or drawn before.&lt;p&gt;While he does transfer styles from one domain to another digitally, it doesn&amp;#x27;t end there. He uses the generated images as a basis for physical paintings. For this to be possible a degree of skill is necessary. For example, try drawing yourself using a mirror and your output will be greatly different despite having a perfect model in front of you.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t agree with your last paragraph. That&amp;#x27;s like saying that because C is a very well documented language, programs made with it are trivial. What we do with the tools we have and the experience gained by practice is what makes something &amp;quot;magical&amp;quot;, as well as the message it conveys. This last element, the transmission of the message, is highly dependent on the individual who experiences art. Which means that no piece of art is for everybody.&lt;p&gt;Finally, I agree with what brudgers said:
&amp;gt; Saying &amp;quot;I could have made that&amp;quot; is false in the context of art. If a person could have they would have. If they didn&amp;#x27;t, they can&amp;#x27;t. The proof is in the work.</text></comment>
<story><title>Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence</title><url>https://distill.pub/2017/aia/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fsloth</author><text>Please take the following as a form of intellectual sparring, and spoken loud hypotheses about art theory.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I processed pictures using the Artistic Style Transfer algorithm and then painted them.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;#x27;t that just effectively painting by numbers? Autotune for visual arts... and it&amp;#x27;s not interesting once one learns to percieve the effect.&lt;p&gt;The problem is that one takes a less interesting input domain, and runs it through a filter that makes it more aesthetically interesting. Once one learns to percieve the common transfer function my brain filters it back into the less interesting input domain. Music and visual arts as well.&lt;p&gt;When digital images became common there was a huge influx of people who ran their images through photoshop filters and called their output &amp;quot;art&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;What one likes, one likes, I have no qualm about that.&lt;p&gt;For me personally, though, that is just tastless, unimaginative and boring. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s because once people use well known domain transfer tools, my brain learns to discern those domain transfers and robs the output of it&amp;#x27;s pleasant features induced by the domain transfer.&lt;p&gt;To provide actual value, the process should make the content somehow more &amp;quot;alive&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;interesting&amp;quot; than just by applying a &amp;quot;trivial&amp;quot; domain transfer, like a well known neural network domain transfer or photoshop filter.&lt;p&gt;Maybe a person should invent ones own domain transfer system, thus not make it commoditized?&lt;p&gt;Many ancient master held their work strictly in secret before it was ready. Maybe, they realized that if the process was known people would recognize it simply as consequent application of various domain transfer functions and the magic would be lost.</text></item><item><author>rememberlenny</author><text>My work is very relevant here.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m a graffiti artist and a programmer. I started using machine learning techniques to augment street art with various nature landscapes (drone images, rolling hills, etc).&lt;p&gt;By using simple techniques, such as Style Transfer, I have been able to create some interesting images that are aesthetically pleasing, but unusual. I took the digital results and painted the contents on large canvases.&lt;p&gt;I recently invested in some GPUs and a new deep learning rig. Im planning on exploring what unique results I can make around graffiti LETTERS, which are interesting in themselves.&lt;p&gt;Take a look!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;becominghuman.ai&amp;#x2F;digital-processes-inspiring-analog-paintings-a358eb7801a0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;becominghuman.ai&amp;#x2F;digital-processes-inspiring-analog-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kowdermeister</author><text>Your last paragraph is right. His only mistake was to publish his creative method. If you just stumbled upon his art in a gallery you would have no idea how those paintings came to be.</text></comment>