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Jonathan Jones is unhappy about artificial intelligence. It might be hard to tell from a casual glance at the art critic's recent column, "The digital Rembrandt: a new way to mock art, made by fools," but if you look carefully the subtle clues are there. His use of the adjectives "horrible, tasteless, insensitive and soulless" in a single sentence, for example.

The source of Jones's ire is a new piece of software that puts" I'm so sorry" the 'art' into 'artificial intelligence'. By analyzing a subset of Rembrandt paintings that featured 'bearded white men in their 40s looking to the right', its algorithms were able to extract the key features that defined the Dutchman's style. Trained on over 160,000 fragments of the Rembrandts, the AI would soon learn enough to produce its very own masterpiece. Or failing that, the Friends theme tune.