"Hi, I'm Salvador Dalí, and you can ask me anything!" That's how the famous artist — or rather, his voice doppelganger, recently recreated with the help of artificial intelligence — greets people.
In May, Dali would have turned 120 years old, and the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, provides the opportunity to communicate with the artist on the phone — the one that Dali himself had once created. It’s "Lobster Telephone" — a replica of Dali's surrealist sculpture from 1938.
📱 The project titled Ask Dalí was launched by the museum in collaboration with Goodby Silverstein & Partners San Francisco-based creative agency.
Dali's authentic voice was synthesized using the ElevenLabs Eleven V2 voice cloning function. The GPT-4-based model was trained on a large archive of Dali's writings and audio recordings of his interviews in English. The artist speaks with a rather strong accent in his characteristic ironic manner and is keen to explain the meaning of his artwork and reveal the secret of his legendary mustache and other inquiries.
"Ask Dalí" provides a delightful new way to interact with machine learning technology. Dalí’s poetic writings, in an imaginative style all his own, are the basis of the training, which provides dynamic and unpredictable answers to visitors’ questions.
Jeff Goodby, project developer
🖼️ This is not the first time famous people are brought to life with AI tools. We have already written about the project of the Museum d'Orsay in Paris "Hello Vincent", where Van Gogh’s digital clone also talks to visitors on any topic.
🎨 Hello, Vincent! Talk to Van Gogh, thanks to artificial intelligence!
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