Robots that Paint Have Gotten Pretty Impressive (technologyreview.com) 57
An anonymous reader shares a report: Of the 100 images submitted to the 2018 Robotart competition, an automaton called CloudPainter rose to the top, with evocative portraits featuring varying degrees of abstraction. One of its winning images was created by a team of neural networks, AI algorithms, and robots. Robotart's founder, Andrew Conru, told MIT Technology Review that this year's entries have shown refined brushstrokes and composition. "CloudPainter, the winner this year, has been involved all three years and has made the most improvement in his system," he says. "The resulting work, while it still uses an inputted photo as reference, can execute paintings using different painting styles."
Re: Any dildo bots make the list...apk (Score:2)
Oh. Never mind. (Score:5, Funny)
I was hoping it was a robot that could paint my porch. Turns out that it's a robot that can make bad art.
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Was also hoping for a Roomba with a paintbrush.
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That's not hard to build.
I'm willing to build you a custom one for cost + 20%.
Please be advised that the price is directly related to the area about which the drink holder can hover; the cheapest option hovers in a fixed position over a pedestal, and only costs 4 figures.
I can splatter some paint on it for free in an artistic way, but don't expect a Jackson Pollock.
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Compare art by painter 1 [wikipedia.org] with some by painter 2 [wikipedia.org]. Unless you take some strong drugs, there's no question which of them is better -- the other can be beaten by some bright kindergarten kids, some of their contemporaries get beaten by a chimp [wikipedia.org], yet get exhibited in major galleries for taxpayers' (ie, ours) money.
Just think: how many millions would Picasso kill if he didn't get admitted to the art school?
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If you take away the photograph that they're supposed to mimic, then the chimp wins every time.
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For one thing his eye for color was atrocious
Well, yes. But just take a look at the other guy...
Both are worse than a typical DeviantArt amateur. But only one has his paintings sold for millions. Picasso and his followers were masters of an art, though: the art of milking sponsors and taxpayers-paid organizations. Then you had masterpieces of that art such as selling a broken bicycle wheel, a picture filled with a single color, or an unmade bed.
Hitler's paintings were not top-level art, but at least deserve to be called "art". On the other hand,
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Hitler's painting is realism, but he hasn't surpassed the level of Bob Ross, he uses a combination of colors, as if it had been assigned to him, without awareness of whether those colors would be appropriate or not. He doesn't have any understanding of the emotional
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But I have often wondered if the later Picasso could still paint like younger Picasso if he had wanted to
He almost certainly could have. His eye was clear, and his hand was steady. The shame is that he didn't continue his work on realism......he could have reached or surpassed the skill level of Monet, but he didn't.
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Hey, everybody's gotta eat. If someone can get people to pay them money to produce shitty modern art, what's the harm?
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Hey, everybody's gotta eat.
'cept the robots.
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If they were willing to show up sober and on time every morning, they could already be doing work.
Wait, you thought those shitty artists are getting paid?!?!? LMFAO
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Yeah, but that robot is going to put a lot of people producing shitty modern art out of work. Maybe they can paint your porch.
Hence, I predict that "robo-tard" (as opposed to the spelling in the article) will be come a word soon after.
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yup next iteration of photo to sketch... not art
Robotart? (Score:2)
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waiting for robot love
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"no one seem to understand the difference between intelligence and a stupid algorithm"
probably for the same reason people can;t understand the difference between journalism and clickbait
Absolutely awful! (Score:3)
CloudPainter painted the worst clouds I've ever seen! ;)
Start with classical paintings (Score:4, Interesting)
Instead of all the modern artsy-fartsy stuff, let's see a robot paint a decent classical portrait.
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Just because someone calls it 'art' doesn't meant it is art.
Actually, if someone calls it art, then yes, it is art.
Whether it is good art is another question.
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Robotart (Score:2)
Eric Joyner Would be Proud (Score:1)
And do they paint donuts?
Post Modernist (Score:2)
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