it's called edmond de bellamy and it is not what it seems.i like about the work we're offering is that, at first blush, it looks like a portrait. the frame is all part of that. you approach it, assuming it is like everything else you have seen. and then when you read the label and read that, in fact, this has been created by an artificial intelligence programme, then that, i think, is the real shock. this is the latest image of a type that we have seen before on click — images that have been created using a form of artificial intelligence called generative adversarial networks. as far as i understand it, the computer splits itself in two and one half of the computer looks through 5,000 or 15,000 portraits, learns what a portrait is, and then makes its own version. it's not a mash—up, it's not photoshopped, it has created a portrait based on the rules that it is learnt. and then the other half of the computer flicks through all the 5,001 and if it can pick the one that has it and reruns it until the discriminator — as it's called — can't detec

it's called edmond de bellamy. and it is not what it seems.” it's called edmond de bellamy.hat it seems. i like that at first blush it was acapulco. the frame is all part of that. you assume it is like everything as you have seen. and then when you read the label and read that in fact it has been created by an artificial intelligence programme, then i think thatis intelligence programme, then i think that is the real shock. this is the latest image of a type that we have seen before on click. images that have been created by a type of artificial intelligence. as as i understand it, the computer split itself into and one half of the computer looks through 5000 or 15,000 portraits, lives with a portuguese, and then makes its own version. it is creditable to based on the rules that it is learnt. and then the other half of the computer picks through all the portraits, and if he can pick the one that has been generated by the computer, it reruns that and reruns until it can't detect which is credit by human and which by the computer. this is the first piece of aea art to go under

edmond de bellamy is one of a family of computer—generated pictures. comte de bellamy, owned by nicolas laugero—lasserre, an urban art collector whose collection lives in ecole 42, a coding school, also in paris. translation: what truly astonished me about 0bvious is that they created a hybrid between a start—up and artist. what was great, we realised afterwards, was that a form of art that was subversive was brought here, into this school, which also has a subversive spirit. the discussion goes on about whether computer—generated works can ever be considered art. 0bvious actually told us that the images themselves aren't important — they're making conceptual art — and you need to understand the concept which, in this case, is the ai behind the scenes. it would probably be a mistake, as some have done, to compare the work of obvious with the masters of the early 20th century. perhaps instead, they should be compared to works of artists like damien hirst and jeff koons. and maybe the skill actually lies with the inventor of the generative adversarial net

we are seeing the portrait of edmond de bellamy in studio 57 on cbs "this morning."obvious. it used an algorithm to analyze a data set of 15,000 portraits and created a unique image. christie's international head of prints and multiples is richard lloyd. i find when i meet british people i have to start talking like you. >> how we live is all like "the crown." that's a documentary. [ laughter ] >> we are so glad you're here. you said don't call this a mashup. so explain how this works. >> often used a navety piece of software and what they did is they uploaded thousands of images to a computer and at that point it splits itself in two and that analyzes the thousands of portraits and learn what is a portrait is. so it's good two kind of round things here and a thing here and it passes through all those and then thinks, okay, now i'm going to start creating my own versions of those. the second half of the computer, the discriminator, tries to spot that and every time the cycle is run, if the discriminator is able to say, wait a minute, that's created by computer, the g