The intersection of human and robotic creativity. FRIDA – [Framework and Robotics Initiative for Developing Arts] is a robotic arm that creates work with the assistance of AI.

From Carnegie Mellon College:

Customers can direct FRIDA by inputting a textual content description, submitting different artistic endeavors to encourage its type, or importing {a photograph} and asking it to color a illustration of it. The group is experimenting with different inputs as properly, together with audio. They performed ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” and requested FRIDA to color it.

The New York Instances additionally printed this story on FRIDA

This Robotic Can Paint. However Is It Artwork?

The method of shifting from language prompts to pixelated pictures to brushstrokes may be sophisticated, because the robotic should account for “the noise of the actual world,” Dr. Oh stated. However she, Mr. Schaldenbrand and Jim McCann, a roboticist at Carnegie Mellon who additionally helped develop FRIDA, imagine that the analysis is value pursuing for 2 causes: It may enhance the interface between people and machines, and it may, via artwork, assist join individuals to at least one one other.

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