one thing that will take a while for the robot to understand or maybe never in my opinion will be Interpretation. Artists use artistic license to make judgments that will make the artwork easy to read. Like the illusion of mass created by an artist in a portrait maybe not exist in the photo reference. Shadows and or unpleasant features can be removed or softened to make the picture more appealing.
Without a sense of human aesthetic the machine may never create a picture that appeals to the human eye. Robot art of the future may compensate by using photo shop style filters to mimic human artistic choices. it may blur the far edges and sharpen the focus of focal points but it’s not a choice but a feature from a pull down menu.
A really diabolical art machine would be a image search engine that recombines existing works of art and mashes them up to create new original work .or create new works by a long dead artist using his own style . it would be in his own hand and favorite pallet. creepy and wrong feeling like seeing those those dead movie stars in soda pop commercials. that feeling you get like someone has stepped over your grave.
I could be wrong the tricks that it taught me years to learn with a organic carbon based computer maybe repeated by silicon but we will see. Is art and music something we need machines to make?
There are some things technology can do but it’s up to us to know in our heart if it’s needed or if it’s an abomination .
