ＡＩゴッホ、切り落としたのは「耳のほんの一部」　仏美術館展覧会に登場

【パリＡＦＰ＝時事】フランスの展覧会に展示されているビンセント・ファン・ゴッホの人工知能（ＡＩ）は辛抱強い。だが、耳を切り落としたことについては一言あるようだ。（写真は、仏パリ・オルセー美術館で開催のゴッホの展覧会のメディアプレビューで、ゴッホの自画像の動画を撮る人）
　ＡＩゴッホはＡＩによくある怒ったような口調で「申し訳ないが誤解があるようだ。あなたは間違っている」と述べると「私が切り落としたのは耳たぶのほんの一部だ」と主張した。
　ＡＩゴッホは、仏パリのオルセー美術館で開催中の、大規模企画展の最後に展示されている。同展はゴッホがパリ北郊のオーベルシュルオワーズで過ごした、自殺するまでの最後の数週間に焦点を当てたもので、会期は２月まで。
　ゴッホは１８９０年、３７歳の時に拳銃自殺を図り２日後に死亡した。
　だがモニター画面に現れたＡＩゴッホは２１世紀のカウンセリング用語になじみがあるようだ。
　ＡＩゴッホは「私はメンタルヘルスの問題を抱えていたが、オーベルシュルオワーズに移住したのは死にたいと思っていたためではない」と述べた。
　オルセー美術館に展示されている絵画約４０点からも、死の直前までが特に多作だったことが分かる。「オーベルの教会」「カラスの群れ飛ぶ麦畑」、そして最後の作品「木の根と幹」など多くの名作がこの時期に作られた。
　ＡＩゴッホには改善点も残っている。
　好きな色はと聞かれれば、黄色だとはっきりと答えられるが、フランス人記者が生前親交があったガシェ医師について質問したところ、名前を認識できなかった。
　ＡＩを手掛けた仏スタートアップ、ジャンボマナの代表は、ＡＩゴッホは「フランス語を認識するが名詞を正確に理解するには今後も調整が必要だ」と話した。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/10/06-15:42）

AI Vincent Van Gogh is patient but unimpressed by yet another question about his chopped-off ear.
I apologise for any confusion but it seems you are mistaken, says the great painter's avatar, in the sort of testy tone familiar to anyone who has toyed with AI language models.
I only cut off a small part of my ear lobe, he insists (in fact, there are multiple accounts of how the artist mutilated his ear).
The artificial intelligence Van Gogh appears on a video screen at the end of a blockbuster exhibition at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris. The exhibition, running until February, is dedicated to the final weeks of his life in the village of Auvers-sur-Oise, just north of the French capital.
Van Gogh shot himself with a rusty pistol in 1890 aged 37. It took him two days to die.
But the AI Vincent is surprisingly well-versed in 21st century therapy-speak.
While I did face mental health struggles, my move to Auvers-sur-Oise was not motivated by a desire to end my life, he says.
As the 40 or so paintings at the Orsay exhibition make clear, his final weeks were extraordinarily prolific, full of masterpieces including The Church at Auvers, Wheatfield with Crows and his very last, Tree Roots.
All the more surprising is that this period has never been given a dedicated showcase, said Christophe Leribault, Musee d'Orsay president.
- Virtual Vincent -
Among the highlights is a room dedicated to his double-square panoramas, a technical revolution in which he used very long and thin canvases, prefiguring the wide-screen landscapes of cinema.
It is perhaps fitting, then, that the show ends with modern technologies, which have become increasingly common as exhibitions try to pull in young audiences.
As well as the Van Gogh chatbot, visitors can also don a virtual reality headset to enter the kitchen of Dr Gachet, where Van Gogh spent time in his final weeks, take a surreal trip around an enormous version of his paint palette and plunge into the tree roots of his final painting.
The state-of-the-art helmet from Taiwanese firm Vive Arts can track the hands of users -- without the need for handheld controllers -- allowing them to pick up items in the virtual world and play with globules of paint.
The AI, by contrast, displays some of the teething problems of the nascent tech.
Asked about his favourite colour, AI Vincent is very certain (yellow).
But he struggles to recognise people in his life, failing to pick up the name of Dr Gachet when asked by a French journalist.
It recognises words in the French language but we still need to fine-tune the AI so that it understands proper nouns better, said Christophe Renaudineau, head of Jumbo Mana, the Strasbourg start-up which designed the machine.
This experiment will allow us to improve the model, he added.