Watson analyzed inventor Nikola Tesla’s patents, journals and scientific articles, as well as articles written about him and found Tesla’s writings ranked 93% in artistic interest.
Watson uncovered the underlying emotions and writing styles behind each word to reveal a new side of the famed inventor as an artist at heart.
The Artist Inside by artists Craig Cutler and Stephen Meirding was inspired by this surprising insight¬–Tesla’s conflicted, dual personas: the scientist and the artist. The mirrored cube represents Tesla’s mind, with the inner electric grid representing his fame as a well-known scientist. The generative art that comes alive inside the cube speaks to Tesla’s lesser-known artistic side, uncovered with Watson.
About Art with Watson: IBM Watson is a cognitive system that understands, reasons and learns. In the few years Watson has been at work in the world, he’s had one purpose: to augment human ability. To help us make better decisions, do what we do better. Hidden Portraits is a collaboration between Watson and a selection of notable contemporary artists. Those artists used insights uncovered by Watson to create unique and revealing, never-before-possible portraits of influential thinkers. See the art at
