AI's Next Trick? Helping Unearth Amazing Artwork

Most of us have a music, movie or video-game library – possibly all three – but few have an art collection or even know what their favourite works of art are. Next year, that will change as art moves from the inaccessible to the everyday, thanks to AI. Art hasn't felt accessible to many for a long time. Our main experience of it involves visiting galleries and museums or feeling out our depth in art history classes. At a gallery, we spend a couple of hours looking at a lot of seemingly important pieces, but then we leave and the artworks stay where they are. They don't draw us in, like a favourite album, movie or video game, and we know we can't afford to take them home with us.