AI art critic can predict which emotions a painting will evoke

By Edd Gent

Google Cultural Institute/Public Domain

Monet’s paintings of gardens can make a viewer feel content, while Dali’s melting clocks elicit fear or confusion. Now, an AI art critic can predict which emotions famous paintings will evoke and give explanations as to why that are convincing enough to seem as though a human wrote them.

AI image analysis often focuses on describing what’s going on in pictures, but …