Ian Shalapata

If the artist intended their work to have a life of its own, it didn't include the degradation of the materials used in creating it. Wouldn't Picasso have used the degraded blue, instead of the hue he did if he intended for the piece to be the oxidated colour? Beethoven's music is simply dots and lines on a page. The music is given life when an orchestra performs it. There is a different life each time it is played, but that is up to the nuances of the conductor and not the music. The meaning of Wells', and others', films doesn't change due to the yellowing of the cellulose acetate. As you just said, music is reinterpreted, paintings are restored, and film is remastered. The question is whether AI can produce a work that can stand the test of time as Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Wells' Citizen Kane, or Picasso's The Old Guitarist? Will it garner the reverence that is given to the examples; should it? Or is it more artificial than it is intelligent?