AI creates artworks 'indistinguishable' from works painted by humans

From abstract expressionist masterpieces to perfect portrayals of the real world, artificial intelligence (AI) can create artworks that are indistinguishable from pieces painted by humans, a new study reveals. In online surveys, around 200 humans were unable to suss the human-made artworks from the artificial art, the US author reports. AI art is created by machine learning algorithms that are trained with many thousands of images of real paintings. The more images of a particular style or aesthetic that the algorithm analyses, the more human-like the results can be, down to fine details like brushstrokes. Despite AI paintings already selling for hundreds of thousands of pounds, replicating artistic human emotion appears to be the final frontier for technology.