This Is What Happens When You Let Artificial Intelligence Get Artistic

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being used for everything from facial recognition software to chat bots that interact with a company's potential customers. Some researchers want to discover what happens when they give their neural networks a chance to show their creative side -- and the results are surreal to say the least. AI researcher Robbie Barrat fed a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) thousands of nude portraits from a dataset and then trained it to create its own version of the artwork it processed. The results of the AI art of surreal, swirly naked female forms would impress even the likes of Salvador Dali. Generative adversarial networks are artificial intelligence algorithms that are used in unsupervised machine learning.