Pictures painted by a robot thanks to artificial intelligence future launche in 2023

FRIDA is a singular robot. Not because of its hardware, since it is basically an industrial robotic arm, but because of its software. The artificial intelligence with which he is endowed allows him to paint pictures in well-defined artistic styles, responding to the requests that are made of him.

 

The main people responsible for this initiative are Peter Schaldenbrand, Jean Oh and Jim McCann, from the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University in the United States.

 

The name FRIDA corresponds to the English acronym for Framework and Robotics Initiative for Developing Arts, but, as Schaldenbrand and his colleagues confess, having chosen the acronym for FRIDA is above all a tribute to the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954 ).

 

Users can direct FRIDA by entering a text description, submitting other artwork to inspire her style, or uploading a photo and asking her to paint a representation of it. The team is also experimenting with other inputs, such as audio.

 

"FRIDA is a robotic painting system, but it's not an artist," Schaldenbrand warns. "FRIDA doesn't generate ideas to communicate. FRIDA is a system that an artist can collaborate with. The artist can specify high-level goals for FRIDA and then FRIDA can execute them."

 

The robot uses artificial intelligence models similar to tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT and DALL-E 2, which generate text or an image, respectively, in response to a prompt. FRIDA simulates how you would paint an image with brush strokes, and uses machine learning to assess your progress as you work. (Source: NCYT from Amazings )