STORY: From how an AI artist broke records with a painting, to an algorithm that could tell us how pigs feel… this is AI Weekly.
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Nearly $1.1 million – that's how much a painting of an AI robot sold for at a Sotheby's auction.
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The work – called 'AI 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 computers and artificial intelligence. The portrait has a fractured and layered quality and reflects our current, fragmented and multifaceted worlds.”
Has AI figured out whether pigs sound happy or sad?
European scientists think they may have done this with an AI algorithm.
Their goal is to create a tool that can decode pigs' sounds and alert farmers to their well-being.
Elodie Mandel-Briefer is co-leader of the study.
“So we had a huge database of calls that triggered specific emotions and specific contexts across many different pigs, types of pigs and ages. And then we developed AI so that artificial intelligence that could tell us could be trained to tell us whether the calls we were recording were emotionally positive or negative.
The fallout between China and the US over AI chips increased again.
Washington has ordered Taiwan's TSMC to halt 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 increase tensions in the Taiwan Strait.
And the Vatican has joined the AI boom.
Collaborating with technology company Microsoft and a company specialized in digitizing heritage sites…
It launched a digital replica of St. Peter's Basilica and two AI exhibitions.
Visitors now have virtual access to the Vatican's Renaissance treasures and extensive guided tours.
