La Artificial Intelligence it has become firmly entrenched in our reality. And the object that it generates, although familiar, never ceases to amaze. Because of this, the digital artist known as Hajar Ali creates lush and surreal creations using Midjourney to bring to life anything he can think of.
For this artist, AI is crucial as we only experience most things from a safe distance, through propaganda images that exist to serve a narrative. That is why he addresses all kinds of topics, from the most controversial even the architectural ones.
Let us remember that Artificial Intelligence was officially born in 1956 at Dartmouth College, in Hanover, United States, during a summer course organized by four American researchers: John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester and Claude Shannon.
AI groups a set of techniques that, through electronic circuits and advanced computer programs, seeks to imitate procedures similar to the inductive and deductive processes of the human brain. It is based on the investigation of human neural networks and, from there, seeks to electronically copy the operation of the brain.
Hajar Ali is one of many artists who are finding success exploiting this technology. Among the most representative examples is the first painting created by an algorithm, in 2018, and which was auctioned at Christie's, The portrait of Edmond de Belamy reached a price of 432 thousand 500 dollars. The signature of its creator is the algebra formula that was used for its creation.
In its preparation, commented the French collective Obvious, "the system was fed with a set of data of 15 portraits painted between the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries, later the program imitated the portraits, several tests were made. When it was perfected, the computer created thousands of paintings, from which the best ones were chosen”.
Another great example is the project The Next Rembrandtt, carried out by the ING Group and Microsoft, between 2015 and 2016. Using an Artificial Intelligence program, to which they added multiple variables from Rembrandt's paintings, a Rembrandt was created, painted with a 3D printer, Subsequently, it was presented and awarded at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
On the acceptance of AI, there is great controversy, but what leaves us shocked with what is obtained, such as the works carried out by Hajar Ali, definitely leaves us.