STORY: From how an AI artist broke records with a painting, to an algorithm that might tell us how pigs feel… this is AI Weekly.
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Nearly $1.1 million – that’s how much a painting by an AI robot sold for at a Sotheby’s auction.
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The work – called ‘A.I. God’ – is an impressionistic portrait of computer scientist Alan Turing.
It makes artist robot Ai-Da the first AI machine to have its work sold by a major auction house.
“My artwork is a portrait of Alan Turing, the brilliant British mathematician who laid the foundation for modern computing and artificial intelligence. The portrait has a fractured and layered quality, reflecting our current, fragmented and multifaceted worlds.”
Has AI worked out whether pigs sound happy or sad?
European scientists think they may have done so with an AI algorithm.
Their aim is to create a tool that can decode pigs’ calls and alert farmers about their well-being.
Elodie Mandel-Briefer is a co-lead of the study.
“So, we had this huge database of calls that are producing specific emotions, specific contexts by many different pigs and kinds of pigs and ages. And then we developed AI, so artificial intelligence that could tell us, be trained to tell us if the calls that we recorded were emotionally positive or negative.”
The fallout between China and the U.S. over AI chips ramped up again.
Washington ordered Taiwan’s TSMC to stop shipments of advanced chips to some Chinese customers.
The semiconductors are often used in AI applications.
Beijing said the order proved Washington was “playing the Taiwan card” to raise tensions in the Taiwan Strait.
And the Vatican has joined in with the AI boom.
Working with tech firm Microsoft and a company that specializes in digitizing heritage sites…
It launched a digital replica of St. Peter’s Basilica and two AI-enabled exhibitions.
Visitors now have virtual access to the Vatican’s Renaissance-era treasures, and enhanced tours.
