“oil painting of an orange cat in the style of van Gogh, around 1887, from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam”
This experiment was prompted by a comment I made on another Web site on 2015-05-12 during a discussion of the potential of artificial intelligence.
Here is an example [from MIT Technology Review, “The Machine Vision Algorithm Beating Art Historians at Their Own Game”] of what happens when you put together big data, artificial neural networks, and exponentially growing computing power.
Imagine: it’s 2022.
“Siri, please paint a picture of my cat in the style of Van Gogh, around 1887.”
“Which cat: Meepo or Rataclysm?”
“Meepo.”
“Just a moment. All right, here you go. Would you like me to post this to all of your friends?”
Roll over Ray Kurzweil, I even got the year right.