Ai-Da artist: humanoid robot prepares for its first solo exhibition
Oxford, England ( original Thomson Reuters article ) - wearing a white blouse and dark hair, Ai-Da at work looks like any artist, studying nature and putting a pencil on paper. However, the sound of a moving bionic arm betrays the nature of the Ai-Da robot.
Described as “the world's first ultra-realistic humanoid robot artist with AI,” Ai-Da opens its first solo exhibition of eight drawings, twenty paintings, four sculptures, and two video works next week .
“She brings a new voice to the art world,” said Aidan Meller, its inventor and gallery owner in the UK. “It’s very important to focus on this“ voice ”of technology, as it affects each of us,” he told Reuters. at the preview of the work.
- We have a clearly identified issue that we want to study. It includes the benefits and harms of today's AI, because the next decade is on the verge and we are focused on deducing the ethical standards of this issue.
Named after British mathematician and computer technology pioneer Ada Lovelace, Ai-Da can draw from life thanks to cameras in her eyeballs and AI algorithms created by scientists at Oxford University. Algorithms help calculate the coordinates for her hand to create a masterpiece.
Ai-Da uses a pencil or pen for sketching, but its main purpose is modeling and painting ceramics. Her works are now printed on canvas, on top of which a man also wrote.
“From the coordinates in the drawing, we were able to get an algorithm that, in turn, can derive the coordinates through the Cartesian graph, which then creates the final image,” Meller says. “This is really an exciting process that has never been executed the way we did it.” ... We do not know exactly what the drawings will look like, that’s the point.
The Declassified Future exhibition features drawings that pay homage to Lovelace and mathematician Alan Turing, abstract tree paintings, bee sculptures based on Ai-Da drawings, and video footage, one of which, “Privacy,” pays tribute to Yoko Ono's “Cut Piece” 1965 year.
The creation of Ai-Da was completed in April, and she already saw how her creations were sold out.
“It was an auction of more than a million pounds of sold art,” Meller says.
The exhibition, which opens June 12 at Barn Gallery at St. John's College, is about the interaction between technology, AI, and organic life.
When asked by Meller about “all the AIs currently running,” Ai-Da responds with a programmed speech:
- New technologies carry the potential for good and evil. It is a great responsibility to restrain the negative possibilities of their use, we all need to keep this in mind.
Report by Matthew Stock; written by Marie-Louise Gumuchian, edited by Hugh Lawson.
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