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How Robots Saved an Artist's Sanity
New submitter lebijoutier writes "According to Slate, '[Patrick] Tresset, for one, discovered a novel way to stay mentally healthy with the help of drugs and still pursue what was once his life's work: He created robots that can draw portraits. Far from a mere novelty, his research is telling us more about both the creative process in humans and how we relate emotionally to machines. ... Most of us still don't have robots in the home, but for decades now, we've been waiting for machines to do our bidding. Tresset believes that it might be a good idea to imbue all personal robots with some sort of artistic skill to encourage an emotional bond — it might allow for more trust, perhaps, though you can also see how overly identifying with a machine might create some existential questions.' The article also has a fascinating video of five of his robots sketching a single human."
Reminds me of Moravec's Paradox
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"Who's this 'Skynet' artist who signs all these works we keep getting?"
Table-ized A.I.
My favorite work from this is called "Hacked by Chinese", followed by "BSOD" in blue pen.
Table-ized A.I.
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Table-ized A.I.
the only kind of artist they know is the piss artist.
Tresset believes that it might be a good idea to imbue all personal robots with some sort of artistic skill to encourage an emotional bond
That seems like putting the cart before the horse. How about creating a robot with voice capabilities that are similar to natural speech? Or something that doesn't look and act like the killer cowboy from "Westworld"?
Any machine that can simulate possessing an emotional core creates sympathy/empathy. However, a Dreadnought a la Iron Man baking me a cake or doing water color is still a freaking Dreadnought.
...and it will keep his interest and divert attention away from other things, even depressing thoughts.
Of course, it could be taken too far...
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An emotional bond is just what Skynet wants! That's why it has been making terminator robots in the form of cute 22 year old girls!
discovered a novel way to stay mentally healthy with the help of drugs
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Just as long as we don't end up with the Mantis from the Galactic Center series...
Michael Davenport lost both his hands and most of his lower arms, as well as some toes and part of one foot, when he was accidentally electrocuted as a thirteen year old. At some point he was inspired to pick up a permanent marker in his mouth and sketch that way; he draws Georgia Bulldogs (with permission from the university these days - who would deny a license to a dude with no arms?) and sells them to alumni, thus making a pretty decent living. I have one of his marker sketches in my kitchen. On dry days, you can find him in downtown Athens, marker in mouth, working on a canvas. He also does commissions and wall murals for alumni for their "Georgia rooms" - charging upwards of a thousand dollars for a large wall mural. (He can also do stuff besides red and black bulldogs - I once saw him do a commission for the Georgia Theater in full color.)
As for TFA, seems like the guy has no creative urges when he's on meds. I'm glad he found a different way to express himself.
Occasionally living proof of the Ballmer peak.
This is a mortal blow to the idea that evolution and "science" have nothing to say about Art (similar things are said about Love etc.), though, to be sure, no one who knows shit about evolution has ever claimed that it cannot explain Art, just the dunderheads trying to misuse the "more things in heaven and earth, dear horatio" type phrase.
I do find it intensely comforting to see this. Sounds more and more like a digital existence would be desirable, after all. Digitize me, Scotty! Immortalize me in those electron/photon circuits.
most of us do.
Lets see:
I have a machine that washes dishes.
One to was cloths.
One to Dry Clothes.
I have on that tells me when someone one want to communicate
I have on the organizes my messages,
I have one the automatically turns on what I want to see
Most people have a robot that record the shows they want to see.
It's just a case they some people think robots are some far off thing, so when they show up in normal activity they get dismissed.
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" Tresset believes that it might be a good idea to imbue all personal robots with some sort of artistic skill to encourage an emotional bond"
If he finds a way, I'm all for it. But his current robot is a webcam hooked to a photoshop filter and piped to a mechanical arm - technically very impressive, but not actually artistic in any useful sense of the word.
I would argue that many (if not most) people have at least one robot in their home. In what way does a washing machine fail to meet the definition of robot... "A robot is a mechanical or virtual artificial agent, usually an electro-mechanical machine that is guided by a computer program or electronic circuitry"
Anyone who has one or more please responds with data ;) to undermine that "not everybody has one"
1.) robot mass 320kg
2.) lifting capacitiy 15kg
3.) manufacturer: Manutec
4.) type: r15
5.) axis: 6 axis - robotic arm type
6.) built: around 1987
He signed blank canvases.
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