Aida is a painter, whose works are among the most sought after in the world. In fact, even though she only started painting in April - only three months ago - she has already managed to sell her paintings for more than a million dollars. This is an extremely rare feat for an artist in her early career, but perhaps not surprising given that Aida is a robot
Ai-Da is a painter whose works are among the most sought after in the world. In fact, even though she only started painting in April - only three months ago - she has already managed to sell her paintings for more than a million dollars. This is an extremely rare feat for an artist in her early career, but perhaps not surprising given that Aida is a robot.
If you come to the exhibition that recently opened in the UK, you can be exposed to Aida's works - and you can even meet her in person. If you do this, you should know that she will scan you carefully using the cameras in her eyes, and integrate the information she received from you into her electronic 'brain'. Then, she will draw, and draw, and draw. She does not need to rest or eat, take care of small children or buy food at the supermarket. She only needs electricity, and the information she perceives from her surroundings, which she converts into drawings - more or less beautiful - which she transfers to paper using her robotic hand holding a pencil or pen.
And as mentioned, she has already sold works for more than a million dollars.
Aida seems mostly a gimmick right now. After all, there's really no need for the fancy and expensive costume of a robot that looks like a real woman, or even the robot hand. Drawing algorithms can easily do all the work that Aida does, and then print the creations on a simple printer. But there are three things that set Aida apart from simpler algorithms.
First, Aida's developers realized that there is nothing interesting about an AI that simply draws what it sees. "We didn't want to go the simplistic way." said one of the creators. "This is an artificial intelligence algorithm that I completely created - we don't know what the result will be."
And here is one of the most important conditions for modern art (in general): uncertainty. This is not a machine that follows our instructions exactly, or that will produce the same drawings over and over again if given the same input. The algorithm behind Aida (according to the little that is published about it) works semi-randomly. That is, he combines everything Aida has seen and learned so far, together with her immediate source of inspiration, in order to put on paper a new and original work of art.
Actually, the last sentence can also be said for human artists.
Second, the paintings that will be sold in the gallery are not really Aida's. They are the product of human-machine collaboration: Humans help Aida choose the desired artistic style, Aida uses its creative algorithms to draw on the canvas, and then human artists add color and finishing touches.
At this point you may wonder why Aida is needed at all, and the answer is that Aida (along with her human assistants/administrators) is not only a creator of art, but is herself a work of art. It makes us wonder what true art means, and rethink everything that separates us from artificial intelligence and robots. It forces us to ask whether creativity is really reserved only for humans, or if it can also be the property of silicon-based 'brains' and artificial nervous systems.
But the third thing that sets Aida apart from human creators is that the robot does not have to die. Works of art skyrocket in value after the artist behind them dies, as everyone realizes that he will never be able to duplicate them, or create more art. This is also one of the reasons why the very rich tend to collect works of art - not only for their aesthetic value, but also (and perhaps mainly) as an investment for the future whose value only increases with time. But Aida doesn't have to die. The algorithms that run it can continue to exist forever.
And here the question arises: will Aida really continue to operate for a long time, or will its creators retire it at some point? My guess is that in a few years, when people stop getting excited about creative robots, Aida's developers will declare the end of the robot battle. They'll let her paint one last set of works, tilting the algorithms behind her in a direction that reflects the near end, the impending doom, the money that's about to flow - and then they'll unplug her and erase all traces of the algorithms. They will kill her, and that too will be art.
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The Next Generation:
A robot that will also draw,
will also show madness,
will cut off his ear.
And will also kill himself, certainly in front of documentation on Instagram.
It is not always possible to estimate and know the social and political destination to which scientific discoveries and technological developments lead humanity.
The comments before presented the works of art of the robot Aida, as commercial manipulation and falsification of the art. In my estimation, there is a small chance that these commenters are hitting on the future truth in their words, and a much greater chance that they are wrong.
For example: it is certainly possible to imagine that robotic art will invent new art styles, in many different fields such as: painting, sculpture, music, design and even textiles and clothing. And you will greatly increase the artistic offer and greatly reduce the prices.
"Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm still not sure about the former."
Another theory of Albert Einstein, which received physical verification.
As always, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and the beholder cannot be just a simple human being, but the artistic establishment in and of itself. The art establishment is a hive mind made up of all kinds of agents and those with different interests in aspects of the commercialization of art, and together they create the "spirit of the times" in regards to artistic taste, what is considered "high" and what is considered "just nonsense" (nothing: now you can make money from anything , given a sufficiently determined and connected agent).
Therefore, the secret of Aida's success is not at all in the algorithms, nor in the human beings who "helped" her in "choosing the artistic style" or "finishing the work" (of course), but in the agent who took Aida and its operators (and may have guided them quite a bit) and ran You are on a publicity campaign that has reached the outskirts of the "Hidan". That agent is Aidan Meller, and this shrewd guy owns a very prestigious gallery strategically located in the heart of the university city of Oxford. You don't need to believe me, just go to his gallery website and watch a video that explains very well the location and importance of the gallery and of Oxford in general in the context of the art establishment.
The article mentioned that a human artist can die, which may increase the value of his art. Well, Aida's computer can be formatted, and all her backups can also be deleted. If the art establishment is interested in this, it will certainly be possible to do so, as a way to maintain its "originality" and "uniqueness", on the way to a few more satisfied collectors.
And another little thing: I was talking about art mainly in the global context. An Israeli artist has no chance of succeeding the Israeli establishment, unless his art, or the necessary "words of explanation" remember the Palestinians, in some crooked and convoluted way, and do not forget to mention their dangers, or Israel's responsibility for their situation. Or then success is guaranteed.
It is very sad that a robot will draw what a real artist invests in art, there is no price for it. The creation of real art is measured by merit and not by a rational scientific formula that is developed without emotions. Art is not a mechanical technique. It's a special emotional burst created by the impulse. The humane emotionality of a human being who lives, breathes, thinks, feels pain on the soft, fleshy human hand. And then alone or to the material. Such a robot completely suppresses the future of true art. It starts with painting, will continue with sculpture, architecture, cooking, basically everything. Everything and nothing. .losing the human instinct woven within us...forever...because of his age I d
I'm glad I won't reach this generation where everything will be a mechanical robot. And you only have to press the right button on the expected fear of real humanity, music, poetry, literature also disappears... fear
There is a lot of lies in one article and in short the landlord wants to make money on robots and take money out of innocent idiots who think the price will go up
Why is everyone excited about robots…
Its creator wanted to be a millionaire and suddenly he lives like a king. One day he will turn her off, but she will wake up alone.