Thanks to generative AI, the digital twin knows the details of its lookalike’s life and can talk about them with curious museumgoers as part of an interactive experience titled Bonjour Vincent. AI van Gogh is chatting away in Paris as part of a larger exhibit focused on the final two months of the artist’s life, a highly productive period during which he delivered more than 74 paintings and 33 drawings before shooting himself in the chest with a revolver at age 37. The exhibit will be on display through February 4 and includes a virtual reality experience that immerses participants in van Gogh’s world and work.
The question museum visitors have most often posed to AI van Gogh is why the painter killed himself, and answers vary according to the query’s wording. I would implore this: Cling to life, for even in the bleakest of moments, there is always beauty and hope, the AI van Gogh told The New York Times during an interview. Other common questions include why the artist, who famously struggled with mental unrest, cut off his ear and which of his paintings he likes best, according to the French generative-AI startup that created the van Gogh doppelganger.
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