No surprise: machines and humans have differing opinions about art. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute and the University of Girona had computers and non-art expert humans place each of 275 paintings into one of 11 artistic periods, for example, Baroque or Surreal. And, unlike in chess, people far outshone their silicon competitors. That’s according to a study in the journal Computers & Graphics.
机器和人类二者对艺术的看法是不同的，这点毋需惊奇。德国马普学会和赫罗纳大学的研究人员将11个艺术时期（如巴洛克时期和超现实主义时期）的275幅画分别展示给电脑和非艺术专业的人。《计算机与图形学》的一篇研究结果表明，与人机国际象棋竞技不同，人类远比他们的硅基竞争者优秀。

Computer algorithms judged the art by obvious and quantifiable parameters, such as the way the paint was laid on the canvas, or the color composition. But humans classified art based on complex psychological evaluation. We ask questions such as, who is in the image? And, what emotions are being portrayed in the scene? This kind of analysis is crucial for correctly identifying art—because even non-expert people were right two thirds of the time, far better than their computer competitors. And that makes sense: ultimately, art is about our emotional reaction to a Starry Night or a Girl With A Pearl Earring. But to a computer it’s all just brushstrokes.
计算机运算是基于可见的、可量化的参数来判断艺术优劣的，如颜料是如何在画布上涂抹的或色彩如何构图。而人类则是根据复杂的心理评判对艺术进行评价的。我们会问自己：这幅画画的是什么？这个场面要表现的是怎样的情感？这种分析对正确评判艺术至关重要——即使非艺术专业的人也有三分之二的判断是正确的，远比电脑强。这样的结果才讲得通：毕竟艺术涉及到我们对《星空》或《戴珍珠耳环的少女》的情感共鸣，而对电脑来说，那不过是画笔的涂涂抹抹罢了。