Art-lovers staring at these portraits will be the first, and last, to ever do so.
The creation is the first self-generative AI artwork to go to auction created and only the second piece of art to be sold that uses AI.
Artificial intelligence generates the images from scratch and produces an endless sequence of unique male and female portraits that have never been seen before and will never appear again.
It is called Memories of Passersby 1, and is set to go to auction at Sotheby's in London on March 6 with an estimated value of between £30,00 and £40,000.
Two screens are attached to a retro-style wooden sideboard which contains the AI 'brain' and this produces the endless stream of art with a male-like image and a feminine image on separate displays.
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Artificial intelligence generates the images from scratch and produces an endless sequence of unique male and female portraits that have never been seen before and will never appear again
Art-lovers staring at these portraits will be the first, and last, to ever see them. It is called Memories of Passersby 1, and is set to go to auction at Sotheby's in London on March 6 with an estimated value of between £30,00 and £40,000
It was created by Mario Klingemann, a German artist who promises the buyer of the unique item a lifetime of totally original and encapsulating portraits.
Electricity is all that is needed to keep the machinery operational and the AI uses a wealth of neural networks to continue learning in a similar way to the human mind.
Thousands of images of western European art were used to establish the AI and the data-set, Mr Klingeman claims.
Mr Klingemann said: 'Memories of Passersby I houses a very powerful machine which creates paintings while you look at them, which I think is quite magical.
'Neural networks are involved, and you could say that they are the brushes that I've learned to use.
'The machine is in a cycle where it continuously creates new faces that start changing and fading away - it observes itself and creates a feedback loop.
Its creator said: 'Memories of Passersby I houses a very powerful machine which creates paintings while you look at them, which I think is quite magical'
Two screens are attached to a retro-style wooden sideboard which contains the AI 'brain' and this produces the endless stream of art with male-like image and a more feminine image on the two displays
Electricity is all that is needed to keep the machinery operational and the AI uses a wealth of neural networks to continue learning in a similar way to the human mind. Thousands of images of western European art were used to establish the AI and the data-set, Mr Klingeman claims
'Of course, it's hard for me let it out into the world without me by its side, but I trust that it's ready to keep creating new portraits forever, as I always hoped it would do.
'I hope that when people sit and watch these fleeting faces pass
