Week 3 Blog Post - Robots and Art
Robotics and Art is a very interesting topic that has a history ranging back hundreds of years. As we learn in Professor Vesna’s lecture, things like the printing press and other machines caused a revolution in informational technology as knowledge was more readily available. A few hundred years later the famous experimenter Faraday brought about important knowledge of electricity and magnetic fields, leading to widespread use of electric technology and motors. From then on different inventions arose, including the well known automobile. This machine was once regarded as more superior than sculptures in beauty by an Italian poet who wrote the Futurist Manifesto.
However, art and robotics have taken an interesting turn. Robots now do what humans have done in the past, even better. For example, there are paintings done by many robots that people consider to be better than most famous paintings. This is partly because you take out the chance of human error, and you can picture whatever you want drawn at the electrical tips of a robot’s hand. This type of art is often considered to lack creativity or imagination as the work is done by artificial intelligence.
The newest inventions are those that we see all around us, more often than we may realize. Whenever you turn on the news you see a collection of robots assisting anchors and when you go to a restaurant you witness the collage of machinery cooking your food. As we can see, robots are starting to imitate nature. Maša Jazbec’s lecture detailed different examples of these robots. Machines that look and act like humans (most people can’t tell the difference) are starting to pop up throughout the world, and it is only a matter of time before it is the norm. The phenomena goes against many ethical arguments, many that I stand beside: robots take away the spirit and consciousness from life, something that is important in interactions.
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I really like how you show and develop the idea that robots really can replace us and are better than us at the majority of the things we do. I think the examples you chose to support your point are very well chosen and clearly there needs to be consideration between humans and robots because of how well robots can perform certain tasks. I think you do a very good job of showing the dangers that can come with very human robots and show that this is a very imminent issue at hand right now.
ReplyDeleteHi Brandon! I really liked your blog post this week. I thought it was really interesting how you talked about the aspect of eliminating the chance of human error in paintings, as well as the consequences that come from this. Although I think the advance of technology is important, I agree that it's possible that the personal aspects of art may start to disappear which is also unfortunate. Super interesting post!
ReplyDeleteVery well written Brandon! I thought it was really interesting when you discussing robots and art. While going through this weeks material I watched a video that brought up a debate about those who question what really is considered art. What should the limits really be when we think about what we do or do not consider to be art? If a robot is creating the art work rather than a person, is it really art? Is it of less value? I thought these were intriguing questions.
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