Art and Artificial Intelligence

 

I uploaded to Google Gemini, one of my images based on a photograph I took many years ago on a New York Subway Station. It included a digitally added image of a nude female in a garden, that I had painted in oils and a 'smock'. 

I asked Artificial Intelligence to recreate the image in the styles of: Rembrandt, Vermeer, Edward Hopper and Andy Warhol. 

It did quite well with the very stylised Andy Warhol version and not badly with the Rembrandt version. It struggled with both Vermeer and Edward Hopper. 

I was particularly surprised with regard to the  Edward Hopper version, as when I created my original image, I had Hopper in mind.

I am fully aware of the downsides of AI including the deleterious impact it is already having on the  art, architectural, engineering, design and graphic professions. I cannot, however, resist the impulse to interact with whatever AI is, even though this may be 'A dance with the devil in the pale moonlight'.