Will Paint for Food -- Art and AI

This blurb regarding an upcoming Robot Art show, and the Artbots website make me wonder if robots will ever replace human artists on anything approaching a large scale (I'm not really wondering that, but hey, its decent conversation fodder) and add to the bourgeoning jobless rate? If people like Herr Artiste (close friend of yours truly) are starving artists now, what the heck will they be when robots start selling paintings?

It also brings up questions surrounding AI and creative control, copyrights, artistic integrity, etc, leading to the biggest (IMO) issue out there, namely, will sentient computers/robots ever have rights similar to those of humans?

The whole intersection of philosophy, mathematics, and of course technology, in the field of AI is waaaaay interesting to me. But then again, 1) I'm a huge nerd, and 2) I've read cool sci-fi/cyberpunk by guys like William Gibson. If you've never heard of him, check out the book Neuromancer. Read the first couple pages (or as much as you want), here, and then go buy the book. Better yet, borrow it from your local library.


For no real reason, other than education (its in my blood, I swear) here's a link to a really smart guy's answers to basic AI questions, dumbed down for us non-geniuses.

-tn

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