Robots continue to move, slowly and inexorably of course because they are robots, closer to supplanting humans as the dominant sentient species of the planet. Another barrier has fallen.
e-David, a painterbot in Germany, is technically better than most human artists, obvs. It’s more than that, though. It’s art. If you looked at his work without knowing he was a robot, you’d say it was brilliant, I suspect, and even credit the artist with some feeling and human emotion. Take a look.
The Art World Will Never Be The Same
It reminds me very much of an Isaac Asimov story I read many years ago, in which this guy gets invited to a vernissage at a rich lady’s home, she’s a big art patron and has apparently discovered this “mystery artist” that society is all agog over. Anyway, the guy is like a robotics engineer or something and he notices that something isn’t quite right about her butlerbot and takes the liberty of fixing him, friendly gesture and all that, and the lady flips out on him because the robot was the mystery artist and it was the glitch, the thing that was wrong with him, which made him into a true artistic genius and not just a machine with a sharp eye and a steady hand, like our good friend e-David here.
There will be more e-Davids. More and more and more. They will be programmed to work in different styles, and maybe programmed to mix those styles. They will be programmed to randomly experiment, and they may delve into subject matter human artists would not even consider. They will be programmed to consider the question “What is art?”
And they will last for centuries, churning out paintings 24/7, at blinding speed. They won’t cut their stupid ear off and then kill themselves at the age of 37.
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