[eu-gene] 40 Years Of Rule-Based Art

[paul webb]

but when the computer climbs the stairs can it play
chess, or will it just climb back down again, then
back up, down, up, down,up,down

maybe change the name to RETRO-AI...and it will beome
cool and "old fashioned" makes it sound boring.


paul




 


--- Vitorino RAMOS <vitorino.ramos at alfa.ist.utl.pt>
wrote:

> 
> Rule-Based ?! Logical ?!
> This seems so "old" as boring. This seems so GOFAI
> (Good Old Fashioned AI).
> 
> Science has now moved so far from this approach.
> Since the times, where we 
> have found that computers programmed as a
> gastronomical recipe, could play 
> chess but not climb a stair (via a robot) or even
> recognize a simple 
> background on one image.
> 
> (p.s. - even Logic in Science, nowadays is Fuzzy !
> see Bart Kosko).
> 
> So, it's for me disappointing that artists are still
> exploiting the void !
> 
> But HEY ! Maybe artists can find something new in
> GOFAI !!!
> They are welcome. Meanwhile, if you don´t mind, I
> will continue my (a)life.
> 
> 
> 
> ~ v. ramos,
>
http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/Vramos-ARCHITOPIA.pdf
> 
> 
> At 02:47 05-03-2005, you wrote:
> >"Logical Conclusions explores the work of dozens of
> artists who apply a system
> >of rules to their process of creation, resulting in
> artwork that ultimately
> >becomes created, generated, and constructed by the
> imposed algorithm.  As
> >Glimcher states in his essay, the rule-based art on
> exhibit is .created
> >utilizing one or more logic-based systems to direct
> the design and creation of
> >the object.."
> >
> >ho hum.
> >
> >does everyone else find this collection and the way
> it's described as
> >stultifyingly boring as I do?
> >
> >Why do I get the feeling that we ran around in
> circles trying to avoid using
> >these kinds of platitudes to describe the work we
> saw around us and failed.
> >--
> >'The world is actually pear shaped'
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