AI Reads Your Thoughts and Creates Paintings
"The kind of artificial intelligence we are working with is not science fiction. It's mathematical algorithms" declare members of the French art collective Obvious, which works at the intersection of science and art. Their sensational work "Portrait of Edmond de Belamy", entirely generated by AI, sold for $432,500 at a Christie's auction in 2018. The portrait marked a new era of AI art.
This time, the artists created a painting using brain waves and AI. The Obvious mind-to-image project enables the visualization of human imagination. To accomplish this, the artists collaborated with Sorbonne University and used functional MRI (fMRI).
Experiment #1: Participants in an MRI were shown a dataset of 1,200 paintings generated with Versatile Diffusion and Midjourney. Their brain scans were then processed with algorithms that reconstructed visuals based on brain waves. The artists said that the results were "almost perfect accuracy." 🔼
Experiment #2: Artists in the MRI were asked to imagine a surreal portrait or landscape and then add emotions to it, such as sadness, love, or astonishment. Afterward, the participants verbally described the envisioned images to researchers for result verification. In 9 out of 10 cases, the AI succeeded in this task.
🎨 During the experiment, one of the Obvious trio members visualized a volcano. This is how he described his fantasies:
By integrating human creativity, AI capabilities, and fMRI, the Obvious team proclaimed the birth of "neosurrealism." In their manifesto, they described it as "the fusion of the human mind and AI algorithms," capable of unlocking boundless creative potential.
The scientific experiment results can be found here.
Sources: Cornell University, Artnet News
The illustration in this post shows the result of the experiment. Does it resemble a volcanic landscape?
🔥 — Yes, very cool!
🙈 — Scribble-scrabble
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"The kind of artificial intelligence we are working with is not science fiction. It's mathematical algorithms" declare members of the French art collective Obvious, which works at the intersection of science and art. Their sensational work "Portrait of Edmond de Belamy", entirely generated by AI, sold for $432,500 at a Christie's auction in 2018. The portrait marked a new era of AI art.
This time, the artists created a painting using brain waves and AI. The Obvious mind-to-image project enables the visualization of human imagination. To accomplish this, the artists collaborated with Sorbonne University and used functional MRI (fMRI).
Experiment #1: Participants in an MRI were shown a dataset of 1,200 paintings generated with Versatile Diffusion and Midjourney. Their brain scans were then processed with algorithms that reconstructed visuals based on brain waves. The artists said that the results were "almost perfect accuracy." 🔼
Experiment #2: Artists in the MRI were asked to imagine a surreal portrait or landscape and then add emotions to it, such as sadness, love, or astonishment. Afterward, the participants verbally described the envisioned images to researchers for result verification. In 9 out of 10 cases, the AI succeeded in this task.
🎨 During the experiment, one of the Obvious trio members visualized a volcano. This is how he described his fantasies:
She cascades from the hollow of a volcano, her thoughts embrace the skies, and her fire sweeps across the earth, nourishing its vessels until weariness is found, and sometimes the anger falls silent.
By integrating human creativity, AI capabilities, and fMRI, the Obvious team proclaimed the birth of "neosurrealism." In their manifesto, they described it as "the fusion of the human mind and AI algorithms," capable of unlocking boundless creative potential.
The scientific experiment results can be found here.
Sources: Cornell University, Artnet News
The illustration in this post shows the result of the experiment. Does it resemble a volcanic landscape?
🔥 — Yes, very cool!
🙈 — Scribble-scrabble
#news @hiaimediaen