The print sold for an unexpectedly large amount of 432, 500. The artwork was bought during an auction (拍卖) Thursday at Christie's, an art house, in New York City. Officials had predicted it would sell for between 7, 000 and 10, 000.In a website post, Christie's said the AI-created work was the first ever sold by a major auction house. It praised the sale as a signal of "the arrival of AI art on the world auction stage."The artwork, called "Portrait (肖像) of Edmond Belamy," was made by a machine learning algorithm (算法). The AI system was created by members of an art group called Obvious in Paris, France. It shows the portrait of a man, looking similar to subjects shown in historical paintings. Christie's described some differences of the AI-created work compared to other art it sells. For example, it said some parts of the face were not as clearly drawn as those painted by artists. Also some parts of the print were left empty. However, Christie's sale organizer Richard Lloyd said the piece was very similar to many others sold over many years.Three creators from the art group Obvious cooperated on the process that made the print. First they put a collection of 15,000 portraits into a machine learning system. The portraits were painted by artists from the time period between the 14th and 20th centuries. Then a tool called the "Generator" made a new image based on the information entered into the system. After that, another tool, called a "Discriminator", attempted to find differences between the human-made image and the one created by the Generator. Then the image was improved. "The aim is to fool the Discriminator into thinking that the new images are real-life portraits. Then we have a result." Obvious group member Hugo Caselles-dupre said in a statement.It can be inferred from the text that .
A work of art created by artificial intelligence (AI) has been sold by a major art seller for the first time. The print sold for an unexpectedly large amount of 432, 500. The artwork was bought during an auction (拍卖) Thursday at Christie's, an art house, in New York City. Officials had predicted it would sell for between 7, 000 and $10, 000.In a website post, Christie's said the AI-created work was the first ever sold by a major auction house. It praised the sale as a signal of "the arrival of AI art on the world auction stage."The artwork, called "Portrait (肖像) of Edmond Belamy," was made by a machine learning algorithm (算法). The AI system was created by members of an art group called Obvious in Paris, France. It shows the portrait of a man, looking similar to subjects shown in historical paintings. Christie's described some differences of the AI-created work compared to other art it sells. For example, it said some parts of the face were not as clearly drawn as those painted by artists. Also some parts of the print were left empty. However, Christie's sale organizer Richard Lloyd said the piece was very similar to many others sold over many years.Three creators from the art group Obvious cooperated on the process that made the print. First they put a collection of 15,000 portraits into a machine learning system. The portraits were painted by artists from the time period between the 14th and 20th centuries. Then a tool called the "Generator" made a new image based on the information entered into the system. After that, another tool, called a "Discriminator", attempted to find differences between the human-made image and the one created by the Generator. Then the image was improved. "The aim is to fool the Discriminator into thinking that the new images are real-life portraits. Then we have a result." Obvious group member Hugo Caselles-dupre said in a statement.It can be inferred from the text that .
- A. the AI portrait received much recognition
- B. there is little true artistic value in AI artwork
- C. technology will one day replace human artists
- D. there is no similar AI system for art at present