"Dalí Lives" is a new exhibit bringing the surrealist painter back to life using artificial intelligence technology — and takes selfies. Special thanks to The Dali Museum.
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00:00Greetings, I am back.
00:04Greetings, welcome.
00:13This technology allows people to imagine for a moment
00:17that there is such a thing as immortality,
00:19to see Dali alive again.
00:21I saw Dali, but like his actual form,
00:26full figure, speaking personally to me.
00:29Amazing.
00:42Almost 30 years.
00:45I in life always believed the desire to survive
00:49and the fear of death were artistic sentiments.
00:56I understand that better now.
00:59Even though Dali's been gone for 30 years,
01:02we're using artificial intelligence to bring him back today.
01:05In order to actually train this AI to reproduce Dali's likeness,
01:10we've started with finding the right footage of Dali
01:13and then we split that up into frames where he's looking the right way
01:17and we pick the best frames to use for training from that.
01:21Our system learns exactly what he looks like
01:23and how his mouth moves and how his eyes move
01:26and his eyebrows and every little detail about what makes Dali, Dali.
01:44This is actually a recreated version of Dali.
01:47It's not a person playing Dali with makeup.
01:50It is actually Dali.
01:52We're very careful to use his words
01:54so that you learn a lot about what he thought and the way he thought.
02:03Before you leave, you will take a picture with me?
02:06Sure.
02:08Alor. Uno, dos, tres.
02:21Ooh la la.
02:35What that adds is a sense of emotion.
02:38If they can empathize with this man as a human being,
02:42then they can relate to the work much more directly, much more passionately.
02:47To understand the art, you need to understand the artists behind the art
02:51and this technique allows visitors of the Dali Museum to do just that.
02:56I do not believe in my death.
03:00Do you?
03:05I do.