# Artificial artists: answers and explanations

Cambridge IELTS 13, Test 1, Reading Passage 3

Source: Passage, questions and answer key from Cambridge IELTS 13, Test 1, Reading Passage 3. © Cambridge University Press & Assessment. Used for educational practice. Explanations and evidence notes are written by Testmigo.

## Answer key

| Q | Answer | Proof |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 27 | B | Artworks painted by a robot have sold for thousands of dollars and been hung in prestigious galleries. |
| 28 | C | They are worried that it is taking something special away from what it means to be human. |
| 29 | C | the Painting Fool only needs minimal direction and can come up with its own concepts by going online for material. |
| 30 | D | Colton argues that such reactions arise from people's double standards towards software-produced and human-produced art. |
| 31 | A | This gives the work an eerie, ghostlike quality. |
| 32 | D | Researchers like Colton don't believe it is right to measure machine creativity directly to that of humans |
| 33 | A | EMI even fooled classical music experts into thinking they were hearing genuine Bach. |
| 34 | E | condemned him for his deliberately vague explanation of how the software worked. |
| 35 | C | EMI created replicas which still rely completely on the original artist's creative impulses. |
| 36 | G | When audiences found out the truth they were often outraged with Cope |
| 37 | B | The participants weren't told beforehand whether the tunes were composed by humans or computers |
| 38 | YES | A study by computer scientist David Moffat of Glasgow Caledonian University provides a clue. |
| 39 | NOT GIVEN | People who thought the composer was a computer tended to dislike the piece more than those who believed it was human. |
| 40 | NO | experiments by Justin Kruger of New York University have shown that people's enjoyment of an artwork increases if they think more time and effort was needed to create it. |

## Why these answers are right

**27. B.** The first paragraph lists achievements: music that enraptured audiences and passed as human, robot paintings selling for thousands and hanging in prestigious galleries, and software creating art its programmer could not imagine. Together these show a great deal of progress, option B.

**28. C.** Geraint Wiggins says computer creativity scares people because they worry it takes something special away from what it means to be human. Creativity is presented as a defining human quality, so computer art undermines a fundamental human quality, which is C.

**29. C.** Aaron is described as little more than a tool for its programmer's ideas, whereas the Painting Fool needs minimal direction and finds its own concepts by searching online and social media. The difference is where the subject matter comes from, option C.

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