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The technological world is moving at a fast and furious rate, bringing to the fore a new ultra-realistic humanoid robot that can paint portraits better than most humans.

Assigned she/her pronouns, Ai-Da, named as a tribute to computing pioneer Ada Lovelace, was introduced in 2019 as a “comment and critique” on the rapidly changing technological sphere.

With her bionic hand, robotic arm, the mind of artificial intelligence, and a face as real as any other, she is the world’s first ultra-realistic humanoid robot to paint, reported The Guardian, as if she’s among the canon of artists who have done so for centuries.

Lend her your eyes:

There’s no question that she is art and she makes art, so we’re left with the question of whether or not we want her to.

This is precisely the aim of Ai-Da’s creator, Aidan Meller, who says that his team didn’t spend “eye-watering amounts of time and money to make a very clever painter,” because actually, this project is “an ethical project”.

Global News has more:

“Ai-Da Robot, as technology, is the perfect artist today to discuss the current obsession with technology and its unfolding legacy,” Meller said in a statement. “Is the so-called ‘progress’ in technology something we really want, and if so, how should it manifest?”

“It’s an ethical project created to raise questions about the use of technology and the impact it will have on our society, and to assess whether we really want to introduce something like this,” Meller told El País.

She even has her own style:

 

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With a sophisticated language program likened to “like Siri on steroids,” she tells you that she does not have an imagination, emotions, or a consciousness, but those assurances do little to quell our growing unease.

Her favourite authors – Dante, Orwell, Aldous Huxley – are among those who have warned us against the slow demise of humanity at the hand of AI:

We are entering a world, [Meller] said, “not understanding which is human and which is machine”.

“How comfortable are you with that?”

Ai-Da is opening her solo exhibition at the 2022 Venice Biennale on April 22, titled ‘Leaping into the Metaverse’.

Her paintings will surely prompt an exploration of the relationship between human experience and AI technology.

It will also prompt questions using Dante’s ideas of purgatory and hell to explore the future of humanity in a world where AI is steadily encroaching on everyday human life.

[sources:guardian&globalnews]