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Posted by Alina Bradford Feb 10, 2008 |
The Painting Fool is an A.I. robot created by Dr. Simon Colton Ph.D. in 2001. The robot is said to be able to read the expressions of a person's face and be able to put the feeling on canvas. Unlike Photoshop, The Painting Fool tries to copy the way an artist (human) goes about painting a picture, instead of just producing an image that is a copy of the original. Supposedly, the robot uses appreciation, skill and imagination just like a real artist.
Recently, the robot won the Best Machine-intelligence Demonstration at the British Computer Society's Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (SGAI) conference.
I have mixed feelings about The Painting Fool. I am amazed that technology has come so far, but on the other hand I wonder if making robots this "smart" is dangerous to the human race. No, I don't mean in The Terminator way! I mean, if robots become so smart that they can create beautiful, pleasing art, then will there be a need for humans?
Already machines make our lives so simple we are becoming increasingly obese. What happens if machines become so smart that humans are need for nothing, not even the simple joy of art?
What is your thought? Email them to me and I'll post them in our next blog!
Alina