Artificial intelligence has been the talk of the town ever since it was introduced. He has contributed to almost all domains with his incredible performance. From task automation to quick decision making, AI is everywhere. It is transforming industries and making people’s lives easier. One such breakthrough is ChatGPT, which is taking the world by storm. With its ability to answer questions like a human, it already has over a million users and is making lives easier. With all the AI innovations that simulate human knowledge and intelligence, now comes the artistic side of AI. A robot called FRIDA has been developed, which efficiently partners with humans to generate amazing art.
Creating art or painting is basically expressing ideas and thoughts with the help of a brush and various colors. Elements such as colors, tone, and texture combine to represent patterns and represent an idea. AI art is produced based on different algorithms and the assistance of Artificial Intelligence. FRIDA is capable of generating such art. It is a machine in the form of a robotic arm with a paintbrush attached to it. Relying on human commands and assistance, FRIDA paints beautiful pictures on the canvas.
FRIDA, short for Frameworks and Robotics Initiative for Developing Arts, computationally models innovative painting tasks and provides visually engaging and thoughtful art. FRIDA has been developed by students at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, namely Peter Schaldenbrand, James McCann, and Jean Oh, along with the help of RI faculty members. Named after the famous Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, FRIDA works on the concept from real to simulated to real and keeps improvising and optimizing the art based on the set goals.
FRIDA works with user input, a simple text description of the painting the user wants FRIDA to draw. The user can also enter other related arts to help FRIDA get an idea of what the results should be inspired by. Other than that, this robotic system can also create a rendering based on the uploaded photograph. FRIDA uses Artificial Intelligence models like currently emerging tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E, which generate text and images. He uses Machine Learning to observe and analyze his performance after simulating how he would use the brush to paint a drawing.
The team behind the research has mentioned that FRIDA is the new way of crossing a robot and creativity, unlike the older robots that only created art using AI but not with human collaboration. Current methods of creating art with the help of Artificial Intelligence work sequentially without the concept of reanalysis and optimization. Unlike those, FRIDA keeps accessing itself and continues to plan and reanalyze its steps with great optimization.
This new artist in town is a great innovation and looks promising for future creative collaborations. He has various capabilities, such as helping people engage in the arts or even automating monotonous tasks. With its constantly evolving function, the FRIDA robotic arm can greatly help humans by providing them with different ways to express their creative side.
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Tanya Malhotra is a final year student at the University of Petroleum and Power Studies, Dehradun, studying BTech in Computer Engineering with a specialization in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
She is a data science enthusiast with good analytical and critical thinking, along with a keen interest in acquiring new skills, leading groups, and managing work in an organized manner.
