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ROBOT LEADS ORCHESTRA
bleep \| 7:51 PM on 05.15.2008	11 comments

Thats right the robots have finally taken over, well, kinda.

Apparently ASIMO the robot that we all laughed mightily at when it fell down the stairs is now leading an orchestra in Detroit.

Yo-Yo Ma says, "Hi nice to meet you wanna make out robot style?"

My first question is really...who cares? Isn't a robot completely devoid of the emotion thats required to take a normal orchestra on a molto bene crescendo. Thats like saying you wrote a computer program to paint art.... course then Im sure some detractors would argue that ANYTHING is art and can be interpreted as such....well to those people I say NO YOU'RE WRONG!

ROBOTS CAN'T MAKE ART even if they are programed to perfectly mimic the greatest artists of history... they're not true artists.

robots aren't artists they're just copycats

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8 comments | showing # 1 to 8

MrSadistic

WE'RE DOOMED I SAY! DOOMED!

Xenophilius

What he said ^, but with more emphasis on the DOOMED!

nintendoll

What about the video of him dancing this year? He looks just like a nerdy white boy. Only, you know, a robot.

bleep

I think thats how IT was able to "lead" the orchestra...by looking like a nerd white person! hehe

Tubatic

well, technically, the physical parts of being a great musician, or a great conducter, are easily scripted. You give me perfect programmable breathing-buzzing-keypressing apparatus and I'll show you a robot playing the tuba. a HUGE amount of what an orchestra performs is learned muscle skill, and this is coming from a guy with a music degree! I can certainly see a robot pulling off every cool looking move most great conducters do.

However, so far as making the decisions of style, emotion, evaluation of personnel, and embuing the orchestra with the necessary focus and passion while learning and rehearsing a piece, no robot anytime soon will be able to pull that off.

Great Great Grandkid's robots though? Maybe . . .

Jesse Cortez

For all of you worried about the robot invasion, we know how you feel...

www.humansunitedagainstrobots.com

Darren Nakamura

I took a drawing class in college, and one of the projects was to build a "drawing machine." I could explain it deeply but I'll just say that the one I made took a number of different parameters, and created unique drawings. I wouldn't hesitate to say that the products that I ended up with, and certainly that my classmates ended up with, were art.

If we can program a robot to conduct an orchestra, I would say it could be a form of art, but the artist was the programmer, not the robot.

bleep

Hmm well I might have to agree wi-...C_C_C_COMBOBREAKER!

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