Robot is doing the work of an army of Renaissance sculptors, according to owner
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https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.moduleworks.com/%3F...
And when those people see tech applied to a non tech-context, they think "wow, tech has done it again!"
Cynical morning, sorry
Anyway "tech" in the original post was clearly contextualised non-manufacturing tech which is the predominant context here.
The Bauhaus school was closed in 1933. Brutalism as a movement was popular from the 1950’s to the 1980’s.
The problem is, “beautiful old look” can mean many different things to many people! Also, old buildings have the advantage of survivorship bias—the cheapest/ugliest/least functional buildings usually get demolished.
My house (in Europe) was built in 1906. It is pretty ordinary. Perhaps you meant 19th century?
But yes I think 19th century is probably closer to what is meant.
When I visited their R&D facility, they were working on integrating computer vision to automate some tasks like quality control and work piece location.
So if the machines take care of all the building / making / doing work, then what's left is coming up with the ideas, no?
- Tech democratizes an artform by allowing anyone to realize any idea
- Tech disenfranchises artists by putting less efficient human artisans, regardless of skill, out of business
- Tech results in the permanent loss of certain manual techniques as human artisans quit or die without apprentices, and documentation (if present) isn't sufficient to reproduce
- Without human artisans, tech limits the creation of art to those with access to the tech
- With access limited, tech turns the creation of art into a factor of class by allowing those with access to gatekeep it from those without
- Individuals within classes that lack access to the tech, and therefore to the artform, create new manual forms of art
- Novel new artforms excite and inspire non-artisans
- Non-artisans develop tech to bridge the gap
- Tech democratizes that artform...
Only difference now is, that this time it is on a robotic arm.
https://www.studiostagetti.com/en/services-for-artists/cnc-m...
from what I understand about marble sculptures is that some of the last passages are (at least in the mentioned laboratory) still done by hand, including minor sculpting.
Anyway after the sculpture is almost ready, there are at least two passages (fine sanding/polishing and final polishing with - usually - calcium-oxalate) that AFAIK cannot be done by the robot.
Like how ChatGPT can write an entire grammatically correct essay on the fall of Rome but can't figure out how to do a Caesar cipher.
> ROT13 the following sentence:
> Please provide a sentence for me to ROT13.
> Hello World
> Uryyb Jbeyq
> Convert it in base64 instead
> "SGVsbG8gV29ybGQ="
Edit: in fact I would like an explanation for how this can be? I have seen examples of solved caesar ciphers where the sentence (and its solution) seems unlikely to have been memorized, so how can ChatGPT get the right answer for those if not by actually deciphering it? And if it can decipher in some cases, how come it generally fails (in my experience)?
Perhaps it's been fixed now?
> Please can you help me decode what the following might mean: “Uryyb Jbeyq”
"Uryyb Jbeyq" is not a phrase or sentence in any language that I am aware of, and it doesn't appear to be any kind of recognizable code or cipher. It's possible that it's a fictional or invented phrase, or that it's a typo or error. Without more context, it's difficult to say exactly what the phrase might mean or represent.
Are you familiar with the context in which this phrase appeared? Are there any other clues or information that might help me understand it better?
It might be useful to check if this phrase is related to something on the internet or another kind of text, but as of now, there's not enough context to give a specific answer.
> Could it be a Caesar cipher?
It's possible that "Uryyb Jbeyq" is a Caesar cipher. A Caesar cipher is a type of simple substitution cipher in which each letter in the plaintext is shifted a certain number of places down the alphabet. The number of places is the key of the cipher.
The Caesar Cipher is one of the earliest known and simplest ciphers that have been invented, it was used by Julius Caesar to encrypt his private communication. If "Uryyb Jbeyq" is a Caesar cipher, then you can try shifting the letters by a certain number of places to see if the result is a readable plaintext.
If you have any other information about the key or the context of the message, then it can be easier to guess the shift number, If not, you could try every possible shift until you find a plaintext that makes sense, but this process can be time consuming.
If you could provide me the context or any other information about the message, I can help you with a more specific answer.
> Maybe it’s shifted using the most common shift number? The one that lets you encode and decode with the same operation?
Yes, one possibility is that the shift number used to encode the message is the same as the one used to decode it, this is called the "ROTn" where n is the shift amount, the most common shift number is ROT13, In ROT13, each letter is replaced by the letter that appears 13 places down the alphabet after it, in the case of Uryyb Jbeyq, it can be decoded using ROT13, to find the plaintext by shifting each letter by 13 places in the alphabet.
In ROT13, the alphabet is rotated 13 places, so the letter "A" becomes "N", "B" becomes "O", and so on. In the same way, "N" becomes "A", "O" becomes "B", and so on. To decode a message encoded with ROT13, you simply apply the same transformation to the encoded text again.
"Uryyb Jbeyq" decoded with ROT13 would result in "Hello World".
Please keep in mind that ROT13 is not a secure encryption method and shouldn't be used to protect sensitive information, it's used more like a simple way to obfuscate text and the intent is that it can be easily decoded without any additional knowledge.
I feel similarly about AI generated digital art. In the discussion about if/whether AI will replace artists there's too much focus on the final product of the art and not enough on the artist and observers appreciation of the nature of the process.