“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. “It is literally the world’s first self-portrait with no self,” said Meller. She is less a robot artist and more a contemporary art project that aims to prompt debate about the rapid rise of artificial intelligence technology. Photograph: Glyn Kirk/AFP/Getty ImagesIn an unnerving conversation with the Guardian, Ai-Da said she was working on a new self-portrait. For me, it must be Kandinsky, Yoko Ono, Doris Salcedo, Aldous Huxley Brave New World.”Meller said he sometimes forgot Ai-Da was not human.

Source: The Guardian May 18, 2021 13:07 UTC