This Painting was Created by A.I.

This painting is called Edmond de Belamy and despite being a bit blurry, it's actually remarkable because it's the first painting produced by Artificial Intelligence that's going up for sale at a major auction house.

From Christie's:

This portrait, however, is not the product of a human mind. It was created by an artificial intelligence, an algorithm defined by that algebraic formula with its many parentheses.

The painting, if that is the right term, is one of a group of portraits of the fictional Belamy family created by Obvious, a Paris-based collective consisting of Hugo Caselles-Dupré, Pierre Fautrel and Gauthier Vernier. They are engaged in exploring the interface between art and artificial intelligence, and their method goes by the acronym GAN, which stands for ‘generative adversarial network’.

Photo: Christie's