Colourising Klimt’s vanished paintings: Can AI ‘predict’ the continuation of an artwork?
By DW
28 April 2024 |
10:49 am
In this Science segment, we look at how AI is attempting to complete unfinished or lost works by great artists like Klimt but also Beethoven, Schubert and Rembrandt. Scientists use all the information they can to train algorithms called "neural networks" to imitate the style of the artist or musician and guess the logical sequences. FRANCE 24's Julia Sieger tells us more.
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