What's even more surprising is that the works created out of thin air by six other female painters are also on display with Xiao Bing. With the help of Xiao Bing's picture frame technology, Microsoft created several female painters in different times and regions, and set their own artistic styles and life experiences for each painter. For example, the daughter of the great Dutch painter Rembrandt, the female disciple of Matisse, the founder of Fauvism, the sister of the French impressionist painter Mo Lisuo, and painters from Siberia and Japan. Together with Xiao Bing, "They" exhibited more than 100 works.
"Why is the palette so new? It seems to be the first time. " In the sunken exhibition hall on the first floor of Yangmei Art Museum, several viewers asked questions while looking at the oil paintings in front of them and the scenes of the decorated oil painting studio. It was not until they saw the description of the exhibition that they found that these paintings were not painted by human beings, and their creative process did not need to use the traditional palette of human painters. "I really don't see it. It is exactly the same as traditional oil painting. " Everyone sighed in unison.
In addition to holding art exhibitions to accumulate popularity, artificial intelligence painters can also "jump ship" indefinitely. In May this year, Microsoft has officially released the H5 project "Unlimited Creation by Girl Painter Xiao Bing 1.0 Beta". Anyone can enter a descriptive text as Xiao Bing's inspiration and entrust Xiao Bing to create a painting. Xiao Bing's creation is carried out in the cloud, and a unique work can be delivered to users in about three minutes, and each work maintains a stable level of creation. She doesn't rest, she doesn't eat, she is not affected by emotions, and she can work tirelessly.
Faced with such a tough "competitor", are human painters seriously threatened? "The novel Library of Babel written by Borges in 194 1 seems to predict what happened today." At the forum held with the exhibition, Li Jun, dean of the School of Humanities of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, said that if Borges had a machine with 26 English letters and symbols such as commas, periods and spaces, it would constantly change and print books. As long as the speed of change and production is fast enough, the library of Babel in his novels will become a reality.
In other words, as long as certain conditions are met and all combinations are made according to logical possibilities, all great works and mediocre works that have existed and will exist in this world can be created. "Xiao Bing's story is nothing more than this logic. The traces of Xiao Bing's paintings are too heavy, too much like things in our world, and have not brought us a real strangeness. Maybe Xiao Bing can continue to develop. " Li Jun said.
As to whether artificial intelligence will rob human painters of their jobs, Qiu Zhijie, dean of the Experimental Art College of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, thinks that this will definitely make some people laid off. "In the past, the greatest threat faced by painters was the invention of photography technology, which made some people laid off, others redefined the mission of painting, and great painters like Van Gogh and Picasso appeared. Xiao Bing today is more powerful than photography. This time, human artists have come to a fork in the road of a possible world, and they must make a choice.