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Ai-Da sits behind a desk, paintbrush in hand. She looks up at the person posing for her, and then back down as she dabs another blob of paint onto the canvas. A lifelike portrait is taking shape. If you didn’t know a robot produced it, this portrait could pass as the work of a human artist.
Some people are only afraid of the killer robots that are likely to change military operations in the future, but a lot of them are equally scared by the realistic androids that are taking the tech world by storm. There’s something unsettling about a robot that can watch you and respond with human gestures, such as smiling, blinking, and even scratching its nose.
Dante Alighieri was 56 when he gave up the ghost in 1321, just one year after completing his epic, soul searching poem The Divine Comedy
By a conscious writer to a conscious receiver — the reader. in this instance, it's done by a non—conscious machine to the reader. that's a fundamental difference in meaning—making, so the response and the relationship between a machine writing versus a human writing is fundamentally different. i find you rather intriguing. can we be friends? i am not alive. she's looking at me. i am a non—conscious machine. however, i'm interested in friendship in humans. that's fine — you haven't met some of my friends. i know you're continuing to learn lots of new skills but what's your ultimate am...
Tell me about yourself. i am the world's first ultra—realistic artist robot. i draw using cameras in my eyes and my robotic arm. i am contemporary art and i create contemporary art. what brings you here today? i'm doing a poetry reading. i've written a poem in honour of the poet dante. i am here as part of an effort to take poetry out of a box and into the public space. eyes with tears in them and a desire to weep, who never see the light of day. dante is quite a complex and remarkable writer and very relevant for today, and so we thought that ai—da responding to that will really show the ...