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Copies of the Parthenon Marbles—carved by a robot—to go on show in London

Parthenon Marbles
photo: © Justin Norris
The Oxford-based Institute for Digital Archaeology has created a copy of Parthenon Marbles pieces housed at the British Museum (BM) in London, which will go on show later this month. In June, a robot designed by the Institute—which can create faithful reproductions of large-scale historical object—began carving a detailed copy of one of the BM’s Parthenon Marbles at a workshop in Carrara, Italy, according to The New York Times.

The 3 things an AI must demonstrate to be considered sentient

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A Google developer recently decided that one of the company’s chatbots, a large language model (LLM) called LaMBDA, had become sentient. According to a report in the Washington Post, the developer identifies as a Christian and he believes that the machine has something akin to a soul — that it’s become sentient. As is always the case, the “is it alive?” nonsense has lit up the news cycle — it’s a juicy story whether you’re imagining what it might be like if the dev was right or dunking on them for being so silly.

9 AI-Generated Artworks Create the ‘Mona Lisa’ That Is Only Revealed When Put Together

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Digital artist TDRAW used an AI art generator app to create a post-apocalyptic work of art made up of nine canvases.

Digital artist TDRAW specializes in artificial intelligence-generated art that explores fantastical worlds. One of his recently completed pieces depicts a cityscape from science fiction in nine different parts which, when put together, reveals another work of art: a silhouette resembling the portrait of the Mona Lisa.

Cheetah research results in new biomedical devices to support patient rehabilitation

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How many times do we hear stories about how an ingenious solution to solve one challenge ends up being a perfect solution for something the inventor had never thought about? This is how South African researcher Amir Patel’s fascination with the speed and maneuverability of the cheetah led him to the health care arena. In devising methods to understand the way cheetah’s move, he has come up with a more affordable and accessible mechanism to support the rehabilitation of patients suffering injury or neurological disease.

Is it ethical to use AI-generated content without crediting the machine?

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Transparency is the key, but how much is enough? A team of researchers recently developed an algorithm that generates original reviews for wines and beers. Considering that computers can’t taste booze, this makes for a curious use-case for machine learning. The AI sommelier was trained on a database containing hundreds of thousands of beer and wine reviews. In essence, it aggregates those reviews and picks out keywords. When the researchers ask it to generate its own review for a specific wine or beer, it generates something similar to previous reviews.

Artist Hides AI Faces Within Densely Patterned Paintings

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photo: ©Lee Wagstaff
Berlin-based artist Lee Wagstaff creates abstract paintings with a secret. While at first glance you may be immersed in the myriad of complex patterns that blanket the canvas, take another step back and you'll discover a human face staring back at you. Each of his paintings features a portrait of an AI-generated face concealed within the repeating forms of the design. There is no magic to his process, however. It is simply a matter of subtly altering the pattern in places to convey the facial features of an individual. Typically, this requires Wagstaff to invert the colors or broaden the lines, which in turn creates the illusion of shadow and depth. The darker areas of the design help create the contours of eyes, eyebrows, a nose, lips, and the shape of the face, emerging from the print.

Impact of AI on infringement and the enforcement of copyright and designs

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How does AI play a part in the enforcement of IP rights, today.

On 2 March 2022, the “Study on The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on The Infringement and Enforcement of Copyright and Designs” was published by the Observatory. The purpose of this study is to analyse the impact of AI technologies on both the infringement and enforcement of copyright and designs.

Researchers train AI to attribute paintings based on detailed brushstroke analysis

A figure from the research paper "Discerning the painter’s hand: machine learning on surface topography" showing four paintings analysed in row A, topographic data in row B and machine learning attributions of different areas of each canvas in row C
photo: Case Western Reserve University

Art historians may have a new tool for settling the attribution of disputed paintings using artificial intelligence (AI) thanks to research by a cross-disciplinary team led by physicists at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. The research, published in November in the journal Heritage Science, shows how machine learning analysis of small sections of topographical scans of paintings—some as tiny as half a millimeter—was able to attribute the works to the correct artist with up to 96% accuracy.

Face to face with Ai-Da the robot artist

Ai-Da with self-portrait
photo: Leemurz, wikimedia.org: Ai-Da with self-portrait

Self-portraits by ultra-realistic android go on show at Design Museum in London

She, if it can be called a she, began her career with abstract art but has now moved to self, if they can be called self, portraits and they are alarmingly good.

“She is getting better all of the time,” said Aidan Meller, the force behind Ai-Da, the world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist, who is the subject of a display at the Design Museum in London.

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