Google AI turns all 10,000 BAYC NFTs into machine-made art

cointelegraph.com:

Google Cloud Neural Networks worked with its artificial intelligence (AI) software to make art. Not just any art — nonfungible token (NFT) art. 

The AI transformed all 10,000 Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs into machine-made works of art. These pieces of art take the form of abstract paintings. However, when viewed closely, the paintings take an ape shape which resembles the famous Yuga Labs collection.

The project was named Artsy Monke, combining the BAYC ape-spiration and the artistic, fine art aspect of the final product. According to the official statement about the project, Artsy Monke utilizes years of AI advancement along with image diffusion techniques. All images were created through Google’s collaborative Notebook service Colab in combination with cloud computing.

Google’s AI can reimagine these NFTs simply through text description, not only from reference images. Though for these pieces, the BAYC NFTs were given to the AI as “a loose canvas within which to frame the generative art,” said CryptoGrims, the resident AI artist.

CryptoGrims called the initial response mind-blowing and tweeted, “This is what happens when #technology meets #art.”

This is what happens when #technology meets #art.10,000 unique pieces of original monkey art painted by an artificial intelligence trained to learn from 14 million images of every subject matter that ever existed. pic.twitter.com/fVWhprUGV9

The artist said after the initial feeding of the image canvas, they had to teach the AI how to paint in “the twenty different art styles we shortlisted and then running multiple servers for several weeks to get the results we wanted."

Although some of the images can be easily paired with an original BAYC image, the intricacy of these Artsy Monke