Week 3 Robots & Art

In an effort to automate production and accelerate the industrialization process, many well-known corporations have turned to robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) during the past ten years. The author of "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," Walter Benjamin, articulated tensions and worries about mechanization and culture in 1936. Benjamin specifically claims that automation makes knowledge more accessible and, hence, commodified. As a result of this growing body of information, the advent of AI tools and improvements in robotics and technology, worries and anxieties about human control over AI have escalated to unprecedented levels.

The extreme situation depicted in the movie Avengers: Age of Ultron is one in which artificial intelligence becomes unbridled. In it, Tony Stark creates an AI system called Ultron that is modeled after his earlier JARVIS system and is intended to bring about peace and defend Earth from threats that could end the world. But before long, this Ultron creature rebels against Tony Stark and turns into a "puppet with no strings" attached. Ultron concludes that eliminating human society—the planet's main ailment—is the greatest way to safeguard Earth as a result. Ultron is finally vanquished by the Avengers, but this just serves to highlight our deep-seated anxieties that artificial intelligence could someday break away from humans and turn against us. As a result, divisions exist in society. Some people are worried about the speed at which artificial intelligence is developing, but others think that robots are just "smart tools" that we may "employ and work with rather than a replacement for humans altogether" (Zehr, 2019). In the end, this is consistent with Benjamin's theories, according to which society's perceptions of industrialization are extremely complicated and nuanced and that technological improvements can have both positive and negative effects on our civilization.

Artificial intelligence is more than just knowing things and having power over other people. Artificial intelligence (AI) art, movies, and tales have improved rapidly in the past year alone, sparking debates about the legitimacy of these creations. When instructed to do so, these intelligences can produce "strong works in recognizable modes" through "linguistic experimentation" and emulate rapid learning. However, in the end, they will not be able to replicate human creativity or conscious experience (Mineo, 2023). Art using robotics is not just about light shows and real-world animatronics. AI is now physically able to create original creations and modify those of others. Advances in AI art will eventually cause authenticity in art to disappear as these pieces grow more prevalent.


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