It took Monet nearly three decades to complete his full collection of “Nymphéas” or “Water Lilies” paintings, yet images of the same Normandy water garden could be captured by a photographer in mere minutes – with arguably less effort.
You can imagine it now, as pointilism is replaced with point-and-shoot, 19th century landscape artists pose the question: Can cameras really be creative?
But, lo and behold, photography is still alive. Having earned it’s rightful place in the world of modern art, the pictures a camera captures are equally as revered as the oil-painted masterpieces of Monet and his contemporaries. Despite this however, history appears to be repeating itself.
Enter artificial intelligence (AI).
Although a lot has changed since Monet’s time, some things never do: people don’t like change, to be challenged or the unknown. AI is the embodiment and catalyst of all three.
What started with Arnold Schwarzenegger as a sunglasses-clad cyborg assassin, has now evolved into a full-blown era-defining culture war of man vs. machine, with many of the…