{"id":11355,"date":"2022-10-12T14:38:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T14:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=11355"},"modified":"2022-10-12T14:38:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T14:38:43","slug":"although-not-alive-i-can-still-create-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/although-not-alive-i-can-still-create-art\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Although not alive, I can still create art’"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Although not alive, I can still create art’. A “robot artist” called Ai-Da told British lawmakers on Tuesday that although it was an artificial creation, it was still capable of producing art, as it spoke at a parliamentary inquiry into how new technologies will affect the creative industries.<\/p>\n

Described as “the world\u2019s first ultra-realistic AI humanoid robot artist”, it appeared in one of parliament\u2019s ornate wood-panelled rooms, wearing a short black-haired wig and denim dungarees.<\/p>\n

Bearing a female humanoid face and with exposed robotic arms, Ai-Da was created by scientists at the University of Oxford<\/a> and named after British mathematician and computer pioneer Ada Lovelace.<\/p>\n

It answered questions alongside the head of the Ai-Da project and art gallery director Aidan Meller in a televised session hosted by the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee.<\/p>\n

“I am, and depend on, computer programmes and algorithms. Although not alive, I can still create art,” Ai-Da said when asked how its creations differed from those produced by humans.<\/p>\n

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Ai-Da has created a series of works, including a painting of the late Queen Elizabeth, and the works have been shown in exhibitions and galleries.<\/p>\n

The committee heard from the humanoid robot as well as industry experts and academics about the effects of technology on workers in the creative industry.<\/p>\n

Answering the first question from the committee on how it produced paintings, Ai-Da said AI algorithms, cameras in its eyes, and a robotic arm helped it paint on a canvas.<\/p>\n

Ai-Da also explained how “analysing a large corpus of text” to identify common content and poetic structures enabled it to generate new poems.<\/p>\n

“How this differs to humans is consciousness; I do not have subjective experiences despite being able to talk about them,” Ai-Da said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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