A work of art created by artificial intelligence (AI)
一件由人工智能(AI)创作的艺术品
has been sold by a major art seller for the first time.
首次被一家主要的艺术品销售商出售。
The print 【 sold for 】 【 an unexpectedly large amount of 】 $432,500.
以……的价格出售 sell for...
大量的（时间；金钱……）a large amount of（money，time，etc）
这张印刷品出乎意料地卖出432, 500美元。
The artwork was bought during an auction Thursday at Christie's, an art house, in New York City.
这件作品于周四在纽约佳士得艺术公司举办的拍卖会上被买走。
In a website post, Christie's said the AI-created work
佳士得在一篇网站帖文中表示，
was the first ever sold by a major auction house.
这是有史以来第一一个由主要拍卖行出售的AI创作艺术品。
It praised the sale as 【 a signal of 】 "the arrival of AI Art on the world auction stage.
……的标志/信号
We must pay attention to signals of heart attack.
佳士得称赞道，这次拍卖是AI艺术登上世界舞台的信号。
The artwork, called "Portrait of Edmond Belamy,"
这幅作品名为“爱德蒙贝拉米的画像”，
was made by a machine learning algorithm.
是通过机器学习算法制作的。
The AI system was created by members of an art collective called Obvious in Paris, France.
该人工智能系统是法国巴黎一个名为Obvious的艺术团体的成员创建的。
It shows the portrait of a man,
这幅画展现了一名男子肖像,
looking similar to subjects shown in historical paintings.
和历史绘画所展现的主题相似。
Christie's described some differences of the AI-created work compared to other art it sells.
佳士得指出了这幅作品和其出售的其他艺术品的区别。
For example, it said some parts of the face
例如，佳士德说这幅画的脸部某些部分
were not as 【 clearly defined 】 as those painted by artists.
清晰可见；明确界定
不像艺术家们画得那么清晰。
Also, some parts of the print were left empty.
另外,画作的有些部分是空白的。
Three creators from the art group Obvious cooperated on the process that made the print.
三位来自Obvious团体的创作者在绘制画作的过程中进行了合作。
First, they put 【 a collection of 】 15,000 portraits into a machine learning system.
大批；大量
首先,他们把15,000幅肖像画集放进一个机器学习系统中。
The portraits were painted by artists
这些肖像画是由
from the time period between the 14th and 20th centuries.
14世纪到20世纪的艺术家们创作的。
Then a tool called the "Generator" made a new image
接着，一个叫”生成器”的工具
based on the information entered into the system.
会根据输入系统中的信息生成一个新的图像。
After that, another tool, called a "Discriminator,"
然后,另外一个叫”鉴别器”的工具
attempted to find differences between the human-made image and one created by the Generator.
尝试找出人造图像和生成器生成的图像之间的差异。
"【 The aim is to 】【 fool the Discriminator into thinking 】“
目的是……
欺骗/愚弄某人做某事
这么做的目的是希望骗过鉴别器，让它以为这些图像是真实的肖像画。
Then we have a result," Obvious collective member Hugo Caselles-Dupré said in a statement.
然后我们就得到了结果, "Obvious团队成员雨果卡塞尔斯杜普雷在一次声明中表示。
Obvious has created a series of AI-produced artworks.
团队已经创作了一系列人工智能艺术品。
Caselles-Dupré said the team has 【 experimented with 】 other kinds of historical paintings.
对……做实验
Eg: They are supposed to be experimenting with new drugs.
卡塞尔斯-杜普雷说他们的团队尝试过其他类型的历史绘画。
These included subjects from nature to paintings of the whole human body.
涵盖的主题从自然到人体全身像。
But the results always 【 came out 】 better with portraits.
结果是……
但是肖像画的结果总是更好。
This, he said, supports the idea
他说,这证实了一个观点，
that AI algorithms are not just good at copying other works,
人工智能算法不仅擅长复制其他作品
but can actually "emulate creativity."
实际上还能“模仿创造力"。
