Surrealist Artist Salvador Dalí Comes Back to Life Through AI on the 30th Anniversary of His Death

The Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, in partnership with Goodby Silverstein & Partners of San Francisco, is getting ready to unveil "Dali Lives", a fantastic AI replication of Salvador Dali that uses deepfake learning (and a similarly built actor) to recreate the surrealist artist's voice, manner, facial structure and words. The museum has put out a couple of teaser videos showing how real it looks.

The Museum began this immersive project by collecting and sharing hundreds of interviews, quotes, and existing archival footage from the prolific artist. GS&P used these extensive materials to train an AI algorithm to "learn" aspects of Dali's face, then looked for an actor with the same general physical characteristics of Dali's body. The AI then generates a version of Dali's likeness to match the actor's face and expressions. To educate visitors while engaging with "Dali Lives," the Museum used authentic writings from Dali himself - coupled with dynamic present-day messages - reenacted by the actor.

This surreal experience will debut in April 2019, the 30th anniversary of Dali's death, which also makes it eerily prophetic, as Dali once wrote shortly before his death, "Si muero, no muero por todo," or "If I die, I won't completely die".

"If I die, I will not die completely" -Salvador Dali
On the 30th anniversary of #SalvadorDali's death, #TheDali Museum is proud to announce #DALILIVES, an interactive AI experience coming this spring.

Learn more: https://t.co/LQ592dDFTG pic.twitter.com/4R9H4o2PwT

- The Dali Museum (@TheDali) January 23, 2019

via Boing Boing

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