‘First true self portrait’ of AI created: is this its real face? | Tech News [Video]

AI doesn’t have a physical form, so any idea we have about what it ‘looks like’ must necessarily be abstract.

If you ask it to create a self portrait, it might convey neural networks, or a blandly smiling robot assistant  – at least, this is what we got when we asked Dall-E 3 for compositions.

But now a new artwork claims to be the first ‘true’ self portrait of AI.

This is because it shows the individuals who really shaped its capabilities, or some of them at least.

The image by insurance company Hiscox uses headshot photos of 40 different artists, which were merged together using a coding programme called Facer.

With a designer, this was then stylised into a ‘self-portrait’ mimicking the style of a traditional oil painting.

The aim was to highlight how AI is not merely a computer programme, but trained on creations by real people, and look …