Researchers Create AI Robot That Paints Art From Simple Text Prompts

In 2023, everyday is AI day! A new artificial intelligence-powered robot was able to paint impressive pictures through simple text prompts.

The FRIDA robot was developed at Carnegie Mellon University¡¯s Robotics Institute and uses AI in the same way as the wildly popular ChatGPT built by OpenAI.

By using the artwork of others as inspiration, the FRIDA robot can create its own unique art through prompts given by users. While most AI bots do not have a corresponding physical robot, FRIDA does. And that's what makes this one so special, for it is able to produce its results in real life on paper.

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Using the FRIDA art robot

Users can input a text description, submit other works of art for inspiration, or upload a picture for representation. Currently, the team is also experimenting with audio inputs.

"FRIDA is a robotic painting system, but FRIDA is not an artist," said Peter Schaldenbrand, a PhD student at the Robotics Institute. "FRIDA is not generating the ideas to communicate. FRIDA is a system that an artist could collaborate with. The artist can specify high-level goals for FRIDA and then FRIDA can execute them," Schaldenbrand added.

FRIDA stands for Framework and Robotics Initiative for Developing Arts and uses a robotic arm with a paintbrush taped to it to create paintings on a canvas. All this happens while FRIDA employs machine learning's powers to assess its work's progress.

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Researchers behind its creation have called its art "impressionistic and whimsical" while adding how it possesses the ability to "riff" on a mistake.

If you're an artist worried about AI takeover, worry not, at least that's what FRIDA's creators say. "We want to really promote human creativity through FRIDA. For instance, I personally wanted to be an artist. Now, I can actually collaborate with FRIDA to express my ideas in painting," said Jean Oh, a faculty member at the Robotics Institute.

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"FRIDA is a project exploring the intersection of human and robotic creativity," McCann said. "FRIDA is using the kind of AI models that have been developed to do things like caption images and understand scene content and applying it to this artistic generative problem," said Jim McCann, another faculty member.

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