Ai-Da robot a humanoid, built by a team of scientists in UK can sketch and draw. Named after Ada Lovelace, the first female computer programmer, this AI robot can, not only sketch you but also mimic your facial expressions.
AI has been changing the way we had known the World and bringing out possibilities not imagined. Now robots can run, do somersault, talk, learn, debate and now they are on their way to becoming an artist. Now fine arts jobs are also at stake.
AI is progressing at lightning fast speed, The ‘Law of Accelerating Return’ and ‘Intelligence Explosion’ is in play.
Now coming back to Ai-Da robot origin, Engineered Arts, a robotics company in the UK has built this robot, which will eventually be able to draw and even paint. A pencil is attached to her robotic arm, Ai-Da is capable of sketching what she can see with her robotic eyes, which relay information to her arm. Not to forget your expressions will also be mimicked by Ai-Da.
Marcus Hold, Design and Production Engineer at Engineered Arts told that “There’s AI (artificial intelligence) running in the computer vision allows the robot to track faces to recognize facial features and to mimic your expression,”
Marcus Hold, Design and Production Engineer at Engineered Arts told that “There’s AI (artificial intelligence) running in the computer vision allows the robot to track faces to recognize facial features and to mimic your expression,”
Although, last year an AI machine has already painted a canvas borrowing from historical artwork, which sold in October 2018 for whooping $432,500 at Christie’s Auction House, NYC.
There is a RobotArt gallery that curates annual pieces of art created by robots, machine learning, and image processing algorithms.
There is a growing movement behind the work by a robot in the field of art, so the Ai-Da’s creations really be called art or not?
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Ai-Da stands apart from other robots and machine learning systems because they have learned from existing human art but, Ai-Da is inspired by the physical world around her.
Picasso in making
Ai-Da is a mostly a robotic skeleton and does not have complete limbs like a full-fledged humanoid except for the hands wired to its brain for sketching. Its face has human features like eyes, skin and a mouth. She’s able to follow movement with her eyes, react to movement and even blink in shock.
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At University of Oxford’s “Unsecured Futures” exhibition on May 19, Ai-Da robot will make her big public debut. Ai-Da’s art will even be shown off at a London art gallery in November.
To summarise AI robots on a spree to learn and transform our lives. They are catching up fast with most human functions and are already serving food in restaurants, factories, taking up agricultural jobs, working as hospital nurse, delivering towels and food at hotels, detecting cancer (Watson AI), taking job of TV anchor and other innumerable functions which we will encounter in near imminent future.
