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AI and Art

Communications of the ACM

AI is comprised of two ingredients: algorithms and data, and "Both of these are man-made," said Tony Fernandes, founder of HumanFocused.AI and CEO of UEGroup, a design company that employs artists. "People are fascinated to see what happens when both are allowed to run on their own and to look at what they generated,'' Fernandes said, adding that creating art requires inherent human influence. "To say that AI creates art is to say that anyone can replicate the work of Picasso," he said. "What makes Picasso's work relevant is the human spirit, imagination, and desire for expression. Picasso experimented with cubism to achieve something new.


"Connection with the past": using AI to help find and preserve Europe's historical smells

AIHub

Scent-enriched tours will be accessible to visually impaired people in a way entirely visual exhibitions can never be. As the idea of preserving sensory heritage quietly catches on in the cultural and museum fields, an ambitious project aims to investigate how scents defined communities in the past. ODEUROPA is the first pan-European initiative to use artificial intelligence (AI) to create a library of historic smells. The research team plans to bring some of these aromas from the 17th and 18th century back to life and to preserve them, either by finding words that accurately describe them or by using modern scientific processes to recreate these smells in the lab. "One of our aims is to make cultural experiences more tangible," explained Inger Leemans, professor of cultural history and project lead of ODEUROPA at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

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