Goalposts

Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?

2016 Februarykang

About a quiz telling computer-generated paintings apart from human artists' work.

Yesterday I was reading this blogpost (http://maryrosecook.com/blog/post/scarface-prince-of-the-cit...) so as soon as I clicked this link I thought no way can a computer learn to do what I read yesterday on its own!

I had read headlines about computer-generated images but had never seen them, yet I managed 9/10, anticipating that an artist's technique is not just relation between color etc. but a philosophy.

Edit: Also, it is not a turing test in true sense, since it's one sided. It would be turing test if I tell them what to draw & then it's tough to distinguish between what an artist & computer paints.

An AI paints a subject it is told to draw, and the result is hard to distinguish from a human artist's painting.

Has this happened?

Yes 97 (66%)Not sure 17 (12%)No 33 (22%)

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