GORANI: Robots are now doing many types of jobs around the world, but there's one area that will always need a human touch. Fine art. Or will it? A portrait created by a computer as recently been sold in New York for almost half a million dollars. Many times the pre-sale estimate. But is it any good? Why don't you decide?</s>GAUTHIER VERNIER, ARTIST: Artificial intelligence is about replicating human intelligence, the part that we're focused on is related to inventiveness and creativity. This is a collective of three friends. We sold algorithms. We're capable of creating new images. And we were astonished by the potential they had. We're looking at this portrait the same way a painter would do it like working in a gallery, taking some inspiration, except that we feed this inspiration to the algorithm and the algorithm is the part that does the visual creation. The world is called Edmond Belamy and it's created with artificial intelligence. You have -- in our example, 15,000 pictures. You feed them to the algorithm and the algorithm learns how to create new examples of these images. It analyzes the pictures pixel by pixels so it can recognize shapes and colors and create space on those features. All the data have similarities so common features. So first algorithm creates new examples of those images and tries to force second algorithm into thinking that those pictures created are actually real surface or human-made. I think that it has its place in the art world because it tries to replicate what any artist would do like trying to create from what he knows. It forces you to try to understand your own creativity and how you would be able to replicate it.</s>GORANI: Thanks for watching tonight. If it's your weekend, have a great weekend. I'm Hala Gorani, "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS" is next.
The Artist Was A Computer.