Artificial intelligence watches Bob Ross paint and the results are disturbing – The Bozeman Daily Chronicle (blog)

A piece of digital art by Alexander Reben, an artist and roboticist interested in human-machine relationships. He ran an episode of Bob Ross' classic painting show through an artificial learning machine that tried to find images that are not there.

Alexander Reben is an artist and roboticist interested in the relationship between humans and machines. Recently, he ran an episode of Bob Ross classic public television painting show The Joy of Painting through an artificial learning system. The machine tried to find images that werent there. As Reben puts it:

This artwork represents what it would be like for an AI to watch Bob Ross on LSD (once someone invents digital drugs). It shows some of the unreasonable effectiveness and strange inner workings of deep learning systems. The unique characteristics of the human voice are learned and generated as well as hallucinations of a system trying to find images which are not there.

The results, overlaid over the original episode with clipped audio, are hypnotic and disturbing. The resulting five-minute video is on Vimeo as Deeply Artificial Trees.

Deeply Artificial Trees from artBoffin on Vimeo.

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Artificial intelligence watches Bob Ross paint and the results are disturbing - The Bozeman Daily Chronicle (blog)