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Why is this artist teaching Boston Dynamics dogs to paint?
- 0xDEADFED5 3y ago> what’s the line between art and an ad? indeed. maybe she is just a fan and this isn't some elaborate marketing stunt, but man that anthropomorphisation shit creeps me out for some reason
- PakG1 3y agoA bit of uncanny valley in a way.
- batlass 3y ago[flagged]
- aszantu 3y agogive me a robot horse already xD
- acadapter 3y ago>“You know old cat ladies?” she says to me. “It is my dream to be an old robot lady. And 50 years from now, I think it’ll be possible.” Things like this give me an impression of "Hey, look at how cool we are fellow kids!"
- gpderetta 3y agoMore of "Hey, look at how cool we are fellow humans!"
- printrrr 3y agoClassic case of art washing a company that makes drones for Israel and probably needs some nice, soft, positive press pieces.
- franckl 3y agoDo you have a source? I can't find anything about it
- shmde 3y agohttps://mapliberation.org/plain/entities/BostonDynamics.html https://mapliberation.org/plain/entities/BostonDynamics.html
- NLPaep 3y agoAh, an abandoned extremist Q site. I don’t think anyone cares about what is written here.
- unflxw 3y agoWhat a cheap blanket dismissal. Regardless of the affiliation of the site (which I neither know nor care) it links to sources that can be trusted: https://www.timesofisrael.com/percepto-to-create-fleet-of-robots-and-drones-to-monitor-industrial-sites/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/percepto-to-create-fleet-of-ro... https://bostondynamics.com/products/spot/ https://bostondynamics.com/products/spot/
- JCharante 3y agoBoston Dynamics doesn't need soft press pieces. They don't hide their military history either. They literally have Big Dog with camo bags in the lobby.
- roschdal 3y agoBoston dynamics are killer dogs. Why do we need this?
- junon 3y agoWhat evidence of that do you have?
- Devasta 3y agoSorry, are you asking for the readily available pictures online of the dogs with guns mounted on them?
- krisoft 3y ago> are you asking for the readily available pictures online of the dogs with guns mounted on them? I am actually, yes. Are you referring the company Ghost Robotics? That is a different company. Or are you referring to the art installation which mounted a paintball gun on a Boston Dynamics robot which was heavily criticised by the company itself? Which one do you think supports the robots being "murderous"? Besides, assuming that you are a human being, I can find plenty of images of those holding guns. Are you a murderer too then?
- unflxw 3y ago[flagged]
- gizajob 3y ago"even for this cursed pseudo-intellectual wasteland of a website" how is HN as you describe? I'm an actual intellectual and find it pretty interesting, and often engaging. Why are you posting here if doing so means you're a contributing part of the pseudo-intellectual wasteland?
- unflxw 3y ago
- liotier 3y agoMaybe robot dog will reconsider his career path, drop out of weapons school and become an artist !
- reportgunner 3y agoPerhaps Boston Dynamics is paying the artist to do it ?
- realslimjd 3y agoShe was the artist in residence at Boston Dynamics. It was literally her job.
- reportgunner 3y agoYeah I didn't read the article I was just guessing based on the title.
- rcxdude 3y agoI mean, why not teach robots to paint?
- chiph 3y agoIf an elephant can create paintings of other elephants, why not? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He7Ge7Sogrk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He7Ge7Sogrk
- nicholassmith 3y agoOut of curiosity I had a quick look to see if any of the pieces had made the market, one sold with Sothebys for $22.5k. There's a certain novelty to it that's quite appealing to me, but I'm surprised it went for that much as robots painting isn't a new concept.
- TheOtherHobbes 3y agoFor the kinds of people who buy art from Sotheby's, $22.5k might as well be the cost of a latte.
- TheOtherHobbes 3y agoThis might be more interesting if the robots were electric sheep.
- NiloCK 3y agoI had somehow entirely forgotten about Boston Dynamics and their extremely impressive demos over the past few years. Being reminded now, in context of generative LLM / art land, is making me dizzy. Sanity check: after training, how much compute and storage are required to run, eg, chatGPT? Can they be loaded onto one of these dogs? I'm pretty sure the answer is yes...
- vinnymac 3y agoLLMs vary in there resource requirements. The best models at the moment require beefy hardware, but you could still run a handful of 7B models, at the same time, with a top of the line laptop. With a custom build they could do something far more impressive.
- doctorhandshake 3y agoI feel like the artist is wasting an opportunity by feinting at engaging with the issues her work raises but ultimately avoiding them. She’s not being glib, but she’s being shallow and opportunistic.
- assbuttbuttass 3y ago> Pilat frequently refers to herself as a “propaganda artist” for machines At least she knows her role I guess
- tempodox 3y agoI prefer the painting turtle in the series “Elementary”. The paintings look like Jackson Pollock's, and the technique is easy to copy.