Just saw an AI art show at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science

Honestly, they had this one piece where the AI made a 3D model of a dinosaur based on old bones and new guesses. It changed every 5 minutes as more people walked by and looked at it. Has anyone else seen AI used in a museum like that?

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thompson.julia1mo ago

I mean, it's like how my phone's photo app tries to guess what's in my pictures now.

riverb131mo ago

Yeah my friend's phone tagged a picture of her dog as "burnt toast" last week lol.

kai_foster1mo ago

Wait, it changed just from people looking at it?

wadejenkins9d ago

Man, that's wild how they set it up to react to people's gazes like that. But here's what I'm really wondering about that dinosaur thing - did the AI just plug in generic muscle and skin patterns based on what it already knew, or did they actually let it cross-reference the bones with modern bird and reptile muscle attachment points? Because I feel like there's a huge difference between "AI generates a cool looking dinosaur" and "AI actually helps paleontologists test new theories about how the animal moved and looked." Too many of these fancy tech exhibits just use AI for the wow factor without any real science behind it, you know?