AI art critic can predict which emotions a painting will evoke

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“The blue and white colors of this paintings make me feel like I am looking at a dream,” says the AI art critic of The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh

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Monet’s paintings of gardens can make a viewer feel content, while Dali’s melting clocks elicit fear or confusion. Now, an AI art critic can predict the emotions famous paintings will evoke and often explain them as convincingly as a human.

AI image analysis often focuses on describing what is going on in pictures, but the subjective feelings that works of art arouse …

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