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"Hello Vincent": Artificial intelligence brings Van Gogh to life

Despite suffering from serious mental health problems in the months before his suicide, Van Gogh was incredibly prolific during that time, producing more than a painting a day. Those final works were gathered together for an exhibition at the Musee D'Orsay, in Paris, where correspondent Seth Doane spoke with curators about the artist's tortured, but inspired, last months alive, and the museum's effort to gain new insight into Van Gogh through artificial intelligence. "Hello Vincent" is a digital version of the painter that is able to converse and answer questions using artificial intelligence to comb through all the information we know about Van Gogh, including his most personal thoughts as expressed through hundreds of letters he wrote during his lifetime. Doane asks AI Van Gogh some pressing questions about his work and legacy.

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Willem Dafoe on portraying Van Gogh

With more than 100 credits to his name, actor Willem Dafoe is known for his versatility. He's portrayed a soldier in "Platoon," the Green Goblin in "Spider-Man," and a hitman in "The Grand Budapest Hotel." Now, he plays Vincent Van Gogh during his final years in the new movie "At Eternity's Gate," distributed by CBS Films, a division of CBS. Dafoe joins “CBS This Morning” to discuss how learning to paint transformed the way he sees the world and the tumultuous period of Van Gogh's life that the film focuses on.

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