This is not artificial intelligence

How does the exhibit work?

Move in front of the screen. Do you see yourself on the screen? It seems like you are part of the painting.

What is the science behind it?

How would you look in a painting by a great artist? You will discover that here through artificial intelligence (AI).

AI allows machines to perform tasks independently and learn through lots of practice. In this setup, the powerful supercomputer Genius learned the style of some famous paintings. He did so using images of them. This knowledge was put into an AI model. And that model is applied to the images filmed by the camera.

When you move, you also move on the screen. So the conversion from you to painting-you happens in real time. In the blink of an eye, the very best Picasso, Munch or Hokusai appears.The very best? Sure, because you're on it!

AI pictures

Having words converted into an image is getting easier and easier. Imagine, I want an image of 'Tyrannosaurus rex eating a biscuit'. Then I give that text to an AI system like DALL-E or Midjourney and it will turn it into an image.

Nice! But you also have to be careful. There are a lot of these pictures going around on social media that look just like the real thing, but are actually fake. Sometimes people use them to make you believe things that didn't really happen at all. Tip: by paying attention to small details, you can sometimes tell that the images are fake. For example, you can count the fingers or look at the ears or teeth. There are often flaws in those.

AI at ChatGPT

You may have already heard of ChatGPT. That's a chatbot that uses AI to have a 'human' conversation. It learned that by being given lots of examples. In this case: things written by humans on the internet. We also call this 'training' AI.

Not everything written on the internet is true. So occasionally ChatGPT may make mistakes. We wouldn't let ChatGPT do your homework. But looking for a fun topic for a talk? ChatGPT can feel free to brainstorm about that!