Art as a Human Concept?: “Ai-Da”, the R(E)volutionary Robot Artist
With the innovation of the Ai-Da robot, designed by Engineered Arts and hailed as the world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist, I am astounded by the Ai-Da units’ propensity for creating art, particularly its fondness for techno-cubism. Whether or not this is achieved through preprogramming or not does not eliminate the skill necessary to make Ai-Da …