Art and software deceive in the same way.
How would an intelligent software agent look at abstract art? Previously, we demonstrated why today’s intelligent agents are unable to comprehend a representational work of art. Could an intelligent agent decode Continue ReadingAbstract Art and Artificial Intelligence
Examining Velázquez’s Las Meninas
we see what it would take for a machine to approach human intelligence. Continue ReadingMachine Intelligence and Art
A large rubber ball bounces into the street, the driver sees the ball, intuits that a child might follow, and stops the car. Automated vehicles are incapable of accomplishing the Continue ReadingVermeer, Self-Driving Cars, the Gamesters of Triskelion, and Yayoi Kusama
Pokémon Go players have fallen off a cliff, crashed their cars, and jumped into traffic. They have been robbed. Someone saw his house invaded by players who were told it Continue ReadingArt and the Future of Pokémon Go
Imagine a future in which an art work could be subject to mechanical reproduction anywhere, at any time. Is this a utopia or a nightmare? In 1928, Paul Valéry wrote Continue ReadingArt in the Age of Cloud Computing