Week 3 - Robotics + Art

After watching the video lectures from the professor i started to realize how much robotics rely on the moving of metal parts and electronics. To me these two components are where robotics got its start, now you could substitute metal with any type of material you'd like plastic, organic, wood and so on. With Gutenberg's innovation of the printing press around the 1400's we start to see the bases of how robotics began and how a bunch of metal part can move together. later on with things like the first and second scientific revolution, Michael Faraday studies with electromagnetic s, Tesla innovations with electricity we start to see how modern day robotics were started and shaped by these innovations of the past.

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as a photographer studying at UCLA my art practice heavily relies on photography and the production of images. Without the progress of robotics a lots of equipment and processes i use to make my work wouldn't be available to me. The modern day digital DLSR camera uses the basics and many advancements from what we learned in the video lectures about robotics and electronics to help users capture images. using electricity these cameras digitize the real world using sensors and moving parts inside the camera to focus and correctly balance color and light to accurately capture the world as we see it.
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Around 1950 Alan Turing, who is know as the father of AI, created a test to see if a person can be convinced they are talking to a real person or a AI(artificial intelligence) robot and the only way of communication two these subjects are through a computer. This test is to see if AI can be passed for a human without the human knowing they are talking to an AI. using these theories and principals in the last couple of years a movie came out called Ex Machina. Movies were the first examples were we see imagination of how robotics and the syfi world can shape how we progress in creating and producing robotics. In the movies Ex Machina you see how as an artistic visual movie tackles ideas of how robotics and ideas around the Turing test and AI could develop self aware Robotics.
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Lipson, Hod. "Building "self-aware" robots." Hod Lipson: Building "self-aware" robots | TED Talk | TED.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2017. 

Benjamin, Walter. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. New York: Schocken Books, 1969. Print.

Artificial Intelligence | The Turing Test. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2017. http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/reingold/courses/ai/turing.html

Robotics MachikoKusahara 1. Machiko Kusahara. Youtube, 2012. Video. 

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  1. choudrykApril 26, 2017 at 9:59 PM

    I really enjoyed reading your post. I remember learning about Alan Turning in my cognitive science class and I was blown away in how their was a machine that responded and we as humans were tested in whether we could figure out if we were talking to a machine or not. It was so crazy to see how some people failed this. Really makes us wonder in how the robotics are advancing, even to the human mind. I also enjoyed reading about your passion for the camera and how you went into detail about how the camera works. I never really looked at a camera with that type of perspective before. I enjoy photography as well and now whenever I see a DLSR camera it will remind me of the what I learned in this class.

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