AI Detects Unusual Signal Hidden in a Famous Raphael Masterpiece

Science Alert ^ | December 30, 2023 | David Nield

[SunkenCiv]

Scholars have in fact long debated whether or not the painting is a Raphael original... a new method of analysis based on an AI algorithm has sided with those who think at least some of the strokes were at the hand of another artist.

Researchers from the UK and US developed a custom analysis algorithm based on the works that we know are the result of the Italian master's brushwork...

Machine learning processes typically need to be trained on a vast pool of examples, something which isn't always available when it comes to a sole artist's life work. In this case, the team modified pre-trained architecture developed by Microscoft called ResNet50, coupled with a traditional machine learning technique called a Support Vector Machine.

The method has previously been shown to have a 98 percent accuracy level when it comes to identifying Raphael paintings. Usually, it's trained on whole pictures, but here the team also asked it to look at individual faces.

While the Madonna, the Child, and St John all show up as being created from the hand of Raphael, that's not the case of St Joseph. The researchers note that in previous debates over the painting's authenticity, St Joseph's face has been thought to be less well done than the others in the frame...

Giulio Romano, one of Raphael's pupils, may have been responsible for the fourth face, but that's by no means certain. It's another example of modern technology revealing the secrets of classic paintings – this time with AI.

The Madonna della Rosa was painted on canvas in the years 1518 to 1520, experts think. It was in the mid-1800s that art critics started to suspect that Raphael might not have painted all of the artwork.

[motor_racer]

Ol’ Billy Bob did most of his paintings on black velvet and sell them beside the highway. Elvis was a popular subject.

[KobraKai]

This is better reading than an injury list report for someone’s favorite sportsball team. This will probably be the only posting of cultural significance all weekend, while the site is going to be bombarded with college football postings and NFL chit chat. You want to talk about meaningless?

[butlerweave]

AI = Absolute Idiot ?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

If I remember my art History from the past, the great artists of that time often had assistants who did part of the work.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I am reminded of an art critic who showed a famous painting was not done by the artist as the strokes were left handed.

OH WAIT! That critic was Francis the Talking Mule in one of his movies! Don’t remember which one!

[Dr. Sivana]

He used to live in Phenix City, Alabama.

I used to go to church in Phenix City sometimes. There was also a Freeper who ran a tea shop with his wife there. Phenix City is a bit run down, but it has a surprisingly good Italian Restaurant, Giovanna's.

[cgbg]

I call SETI the search for extraterrestrial idiots.

Only humans would be dumb enough to reveal their location so alien races could attack at will.

[cgbg]

“AI is garbage in/ garbage out”

I thought that was what universities were for...

;-)

[Svartalfiar]

While the Madonna, the Child, and St John all show up as being created from the hand of Raphael, that's not the case of St Joseph. The researchers note that in previous debates over the painting's authenticity, St Joseph's face has been thought to be less well done than the others in the frame...

Joseph looks like a different style.. more realist than the others. I wouldn't say he's less well done, he's just not as prominently done.

[DannyTN]

“Pathetic earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would’ve hidden from it in terror.”
- Ming the Merciless

[ldish]

I agree that the ‘bombardment with college football postings and NFL chit chat’ will be meaningless, but am also saying that the ‘info concerning ‘AIs possibility to be “magical, and wondrous beyond our wildest dreams with it’s intelligence quotient” will also be just as meaningless, if not more so, to most ... God save us if it really develops into an evil monstrous controlling maniac-like device with seemingly supernatural powers destined and determined to first control and then destroy the planet and/or mankind.

But first, it will have to either get in line or figure out how to get ahead of the human (debatable) created monsters ahead of it ... Soros, klaus schwab, zuckleburg, gates, fink ... just to start with, who are way ahead in trying to do the same things with - the new world order, WEF agenda, digital dollar, ‘you will soon own nothing and you will be happier’ - best BULL-SHIT lie of all!!

But hey at least half of the worlds morons alive now buy into this fantasy - ‘pass out the drugs to get everyone passed out so one and all can subconsciously vote these laws in!!