Flick on Nostr: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/could-ai-lead-to-a-revival-of-decorative-beauty/ ...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/could-ai-lead-to-a-revival-of-decorative-beauty/
> The concept came to them during a historical walking tour of Birmingham. ‘We were thinking about ornament and how we once made attractive mass-produced decorations for buildings. Why don’t people do that now, we wondered. Obviously, people could do that now. But in a way, the arrival of AI is a very similar process to what happened in the Industrial Revolution, when it suddenly became much cheaper to make things, so people began to cover their buildings with them.’ They hope that their technology might encourage a revival in mass-market decoration.
> And how do they train the AI? ‘We direct it towards Delft tiles from all around the world, and in particular those found in museum collections that are available to view online,’ explains Marsh. ‘We want to bring tradition into AI and help guide the technology to be historically sensitive.’ It is why the tiles look authentic; the AI has learnt how to blur the images to give the appearance that they have been produced by hand. It can create mistakes to allow for what looks like human error.
https://archive.ph/1b5ma
> The concept came to them during a historical walking tour of Birmingham. ‘We were thinking about ornament and how we once made attractive mass-produced decorations for buildings. Why don’t people do that now, we wondered. Obviously, people could do that now. But in a way, the arrival of AI is a very similar process to what happened in the Industrial Revolution, when it suddenly became much cheaper to make things, so people began to cover their buildings with them.’ They hope that their technology might encourage a revival in mass-market decoration.
> And how do they train the AI? ‘We direct it towards Delft tiles from all around the world, and in particular those found in museum collections that are available to view online,’ explains Marsh. ‘We want to bring tradition into AI and help guide the technology to be historically sensitive.’ It is why the tiles look authentic; the AI has learnt how to blur the images to give the appearance that they have been produced by hand. It can create mistakes to allow for what looks like human error.
https://archive.ph/1b5ma