Meet Ai-da. She is a female humanoid robotic artist. Here she is giving her TEDx Talk about the Intersection of Art and AI. Interestingly, the polite human audience clapped, politely, at the end of Ai-Da’s twelve-minute talk.
She also painted a picture of the late Queen Elizabeth II in honour of her platinum jubilee.
Ai-Da uses artificial intelligence to create art and converse with humans. Ai-Da has also appeared before the Lords Communications and Digital Committee.
Created in Oxford, England, by Aidan Meller, a specialist in modern and contemporary art. Ai-Da was named after the 19th-century mathematician Ada Lovelace.
Equipped with cameras in her eyes and computer algorithms to process human features, Ai-Da can process and transform what she ‘sees’ into coordinates.
She then uses these coordinates to calculate a virtual path for her robotic arm, as it draws and paints onto canvas to create pieces of art
Ada Lovelace once said: ‘I believe that machine creativity presents a great opportunity for us to explore new ideas and ways of thinking.’
This brings us back to the power of great questions……
How much smarter can we make machines?
Wrong Question.
How much smarter can machines make us?
Right question.
How much smarter can machines make us so that we can eradicate hunger and illiteracy and help the human species to live in peace?
Great Question.
Ada Lovelace also said (as we have been saying on our weekly 30 minute chat about AI, Innovation & Ethics in Marketing, almost every week): ‘However, there are also risks associated with this technology which we need to consider carefully. We need to think of benefits and limitations, and consider ethical implications.’ AiDa’s creator Aidan Meller says: ‘All technological advances bring the good, the bad and the banal. If Ai-Da does just one important thing, it would be to get us considering the blurring of human/machine relations, and encouraging us to think more carefully and slowly about the choices we make for our future – Orwell and Huxley’s messages still ring relevant and we would do well to take heed.
Ai-Da spoke to House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee about whether creativity is under attack from AI and technology.
When Baroness Bull asked Ai-Da how she produces art, Ai-Da replied: ‘I could use my paintings by cameras in my eyes, my AI algorithms and my robotic arm to paint on canvas, which result in visually appealing images.
‘For my poetry using neutral networks, this involves analysing a large corpus of text to identify common content and poetic structures, and then using these structures/content to generate new poems.’
‘How this differs to humans is consciousness. I do not have subjective experiences, despite being able to talk about them.’
‘I am, and depend on, computer programs and algorithms. Although not alive, I can still create art.’
Watch out for the small camera lenses in her eyes.
#Ai-Da has since created an Alan Turing painting (of the brilliant British Mathematician whom some consider to be the founder of AI) and has made history by selling it for $1.32 million at Sotheby’s,
becoming the first such work to be sold by a major auction house. Video Reuters Nov 2024. Ai-Da’s owner says that this is ‘art that represents the 4th beginning of the industrial revolution’.
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