Selfless Self-Portraits.
Can you paint a self-portrait if you lack a sense of self? That’s what a team of programmers, roboticists, artists and psychologists have attempted to find out. And the answer is a resounding and somewhat terrifying ‘course you bloody can, mate’. Introducing Ai-Da, a life-size android who creates provocative self-portraits and abstract paintings with her cold, metal hands. Powered by AI to replicate the mannerisms of a real-life woman, she’s now the star of her own exhibition that premiered at London’s Design Museum last week and runs through Aug. 29. An exhibition from which she’s already pocketed over $1million in sales, by the way. I say pocketed, and that could indeed be literally, as the team dress her up in a tasteful selection of outfits and wigs. I wonder who got stuck with the job of putting the robot’s dress on. You wouldn’t want to be the guy with a reputation for volunteering for that one too quickly.
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