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Robot 'Artists' Muddy the Meaning of Art
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Robot 'Artists' Muddy the Meaning of Art

The Implications of Automating Creativity: Understanding the True Essence of Art

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Thomas Walker-Werth
Nov 03, 2021
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When Oxford art gallery director Aidan Meller and his team created Ai-Da, a human-form robot that can draw and paint using “machine learning” algorithms, they sought to challenge commonly held ideas of what art is.1 Their website claims that the idea that “art is entirely a human affair” is no longer appropriate and that “Ai-Da creates art because art no…

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