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Ai-Da is an accomplished artist who has shown her designs at the Venice Biennale and addressed the House of Lords about the future of the creative industries.
She is also a robot. One that can talk, answer complex questions, paint, and create art currently on display at the London Design Biennale.
She’s too lifelike to be called it, powered by cutting-edge AI technology, her designs of everyday items like cutlery and pots made using a 3D printer.
Ai-Da’s work is beautiful, but flawed. Spoons have holes in them and cups are missing sides, making them completely nonfunctional.
And that’s the conversation Ai-Da’s creators wanted to start – with the staggering pace of AI development, can we really trust the technology to behave in the way we expect it to?
Aidan Meller, who devised the Ai-Da robot in Oxford, thinks we may not be able to.
“The biggest thing is we just don’t know where it’s going to land. We can see the short-term gains, but actually that’s not going to be where it stays. AI is moving so quickly,” he told Sky News.
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“The domino effect of the changes we’re making with the technology today, we don’t know how that’s going to actually impact on society and the environment, and that’s a big worry.
“And the fact that we’re just going in there so confidently without actually doing tests, without doing trials before releasing it to the public, ethically it’s a…
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