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Robots that Paint Have Gotten Pretty Impressive (technologyreview.com)

Posted by msmash on from the marching-forward dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Of the 100 images submitted to the 2018 Robotart competition, an automaton called CloudPainter rose to the top, with evocative portraits featuring varying degrees of abstraction. One of its winning images was created by a team of neural networks, AI algorithms, and robots. Robotart's founder, Andrew Conru, told MIT Technology Review that this year's entries have shown refined brushstrokes and composition. "CloudPainter, the winner this year, has been involved all three years and has made the most improvement in his system," he says. "The resulting work, while it still uses an inputted photo as reference, can execute paintings using different painting styles."

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  1. Oh. Never mind. by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was hoping it was a robot that could paint my porch. Turns out that it's a robot that can make bad art.

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    1. Re:Oh. Never mind. by swb · · Score: 2

      Was also hoping for a Roomba with a paintbrush.

    2. Re:Oh. Never mind. by alvinrod · · Score: 2

      Yeah, but that robot is going to put a lot of people producing shitty modern art out of work. Maybe they can paint your porch.

    3. Re:Oh. Never mind. by Aighearach · · Score: 2

      If you take away the photograph that they're supposed to mimic, then the chimp wins every time.

  2. Absolutely awful! by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 2

    CloudPainter painted the worst clouds I've ever seen! ;)

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  3. Start with classical paintings by religionofpeas · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Instead of all the modern artsy-fartsy stuff, let's see a robot paint a decent classical portrait.