Robot Produces Paintings With That 'Imperfect' Human Look 74
kkleiner writes "An artistic robotic system named e-David has been developed that produces paintings that appear to be created by humans. Using an iterative process of brush strokes and image comparison, e-David's assembly line welder arm can paint in up to 24 colors and add shading where needed. The robot even cleans its five brushes along the way, according to University of Konstanz researchers who developed the system as an exercise in machine learning."
Re:Mimicing does not make art (Score:4, Informative)
You should read the article...
It specifically mentions how the machine is not remotely "creative" or even trying to mimic creativity.
Re:hello (Score:2, Informative)
Paid off the mortgage on their apartment?! Holy cow! That's great!
May I venture a guess that you're an American?
In most of the world, there's no requirement that you have to rent it for it to be called an apartment. You can own it, and indeed mortgage it.
And strictly speaking, this is the case in the US too - a condo is just one type of apartment. Although colloquial American word use tend to call all owned apartments condominiums, that's not strictly true. A condominium is only partly owned, while an apartment can be fully owned too, including the land, utilities and shared facilities.