Amna: Artificial intelligence is
everywhere, now part of our
conversations about education
and politics and social media
and also become a hot topic in
the art world.
Programs that generate art are
widely available to the public
and are skyrocketing in
popularity.
But what goes into these
programs and the work that comes
out is heavily debated.
Jeffrey brown explores the
influence of A.I. In art and
where it is headed next.
And it is part of our arts and
culture series "Canvas."
Reporter: This screen created
from 35 million of images of
coral.
>> These are machines of
millions of data.
Reporter: It's a kind of
artificial reality.
He calls this a data painting.
>> The colors are changing.
Reporter: The 37-year-old
turkish-born artist at the
opening of a new exhibition at
the art gallery in Los Angeles
is at the leading edge of
artificial intelligence or A.I.
Art revolution.
>> Data and information.
And painting brush which is a
thinking brush that applies
artificial intelligence.
Reporter: They are made in a los
Angeles studio and computers and
software programs and screens
and 3-d printer replace
traditional artist materials.
He and a team including computer
and data scientists, engineers,
architects and designers fill
sets.
You can't do this at home and
run them through trained A.I.
Programs they themselves have
created.
Input can vary.
Right now at New York's museum
of modern art, he has created
"Unsupervised" created from
research and data from the
museum's archives.
In another example, the input is
a whole lot of flowers.
>> This is your brush?
>> Yes.
Like a game joystick.
75 million images.
Reporter: A.I. Is making its own
flowers.
>> To make it, human connection.
Reporter: We are not seeing real
flowers but collaboration of
machine and human.
Who is the artist?
>> Human.
Reporter: You are the artist?
>> Yes.
It's an effort by the machine.
And it is inspiring to me
because that's where art,
science and technology and
beautiful movement that I hope
is inspiring and where we are
more closer to the machine every
single day.
Reporter: You refer to the
machine dreaming.
Is the machine thinking, too?
>> No.
It is helping to think in a
different way.
Reporter: Stuff of sci-fi, but
yet, technology has been debated
including the early decades of
photography.
Assist ant occur Ator at the los
Angeles county museum of art.
>> And marginalized because of
the presence of the apparatus,
the machine, the camera that
people had claimed took away the
artist's special hand.
Reporter: And the computer
itself has been a fascination
for artists for more than 50
years made clear in "Coded."
Artists playing with the
physical machine and exploring
its ability, presumptive
compared to today.
"Coded" brings the story up to
1982.
>> This is access.
Reporter: Access that is for
everyone including new art
making on a.I.-generating apps
offered by companies such as
mid-jowrn and a proliferation of
others which allows the artist
in each of us to create art work
through simple prompts which is
easy and fun.
Last year, for example, an
a.I.-generated work won a prize
at the Colorado state fair
outraging other contestants and
Molly crabapple see another
threat.
>> I see a world where
illustrateors people like are
replaced by these apps because
they can make images faster and
cheaper.
And even worse than that, this
A.I. Was trained on our stolen
images.
Reporter: She is an artist and
writer.
Platforms build their businesses
by scrapping images from the
internet including works by
artists who aren't credit
touchdown or compensated and she
said that is changing the
landscape for her community.
>> There are companies that were
hiring artists.
And now they are making A.I.
Book covers.
Reporter: A group of artists
filed a class-action lawsuit
against generators charging
copyright allegations.
I asked her about the lasting
impact on the art world?
Do I think creativity will be
destroyed because they are
images?
No.
People are creative.
The lives of individual artists
will be destroyed if they don't
have work, of course, I do.
Reporter: Another concern of art
being available to all, the
images themselves and how much
they reflect the internet data
bases.
Consumers need to consider the
source, the data being used to
generate A.I. Art.
>> Who and what is training A.I.
What sort of data is it using.
Does the data perpetrate power
dynamics and inequalities in our
live experiences in our real
lives?
Reporter: His work, he points
out, differs from apps that he
and his team generate own data
sets.
But sometimes referred to as
ethicically source data and is a
big believer in the future of
this technology.
He said the mapping of coral
reefs can help with
environmental and host of other
big problems in the world.
But he cautions --
>> A.I. Is an emitter and can
reflect.
It reflects the information, I
think we have more clarity.
It is on our hands to train the
mind to dream what you want.
Human intention here is.
Reporter: The human that is is
for now, the more complicated
machine.
For the pbs "Newshour," I'm