If you’re planning a trip to the Dali Museum in the United States this spring, you might meet an unexpected guest: namely, Salvador Dali himself. The St. Petersburg, Florida venue has announced that an AI recreation of the artist will grace screens across the museum starting in April.

A team from Goodby Silverstein & Partners used footage of Dali to train a machine learning system on how to mimic the artist’s face, and superimposed* that on an actor with a similar physique*. The virtual painter will both draw on Dali’s own writings as well as comment on events that happened well after his 1989 death — it should at once be educational and as surreal* as Dali’s work.

The effect is uncanny*.

(SD-Agencies)