MIT and Microsoft algorithm determines correlations in vast art collections

In recent years, researchers have leveraged computer algorithms for a host of applications across industries, including the arts. In 2018, the "Edmond de Belamy, from La Famille de Belamy," an original artwork created by an artificial intelligence (AI) computer algorithm sold at Christie's for $432,500. Now, a team of researchers are leveraging algorithms to shed light on similarities in art across cultures, styles, and mediums. Researchers at MIT have developed an image retrieval system to comb through a vast art collection and pinpoint analogous artworks. Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in partnership with Microsoft created the algorithm known as "MosAIc" to sift through the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum.