UK artist seeks selfies for AI-generated 'national portrait'

LONDON : A British artist on Thursday urged the public to contribute selfies so she can create a new "national portrait" with the help of AI for London's National Portrait Gallery.

UK artist seeks selfies for AI-generated 'national portrait'. LONDON : A British artist on Thursday urged the public to contribute selfies so she can create a new "national portrait" with the help of AI for London's National Portrait Gallery. "There are 55 million adults in the United Kingdom. What if we could all be present in one picture – whatever our backgrounds or beliefs, however much we disagree with each other on so many things?" Es Devlin said of the concept. The digital art project "reimagines what national identity could be", the artist, who has been drawing portraits with chalks and charcoal for 30 years, told AFP in an interview. Devlin had the idea to create a "national portrait" about three years ago and developed the digital method in collaboration with Google Arts and Culture Lab. The huge-scale project would not be possi...