Xorbis Sketcher X
The long and short of it: The Chinese company Xorbis put a disembodied head on a six-axis robot arm and made it draw CES attendees.
The company said the project was a test of how machine learning, especially those based on GPT3 models, can expand psychotherapy or education, though I probably wouldn’t want therapy from this model. The robot face’s lips actually move too, and as the robot arm scribbles on a sheet of paper it responds to questions from the subject, though with a pretty long delay between question and answer. Unfortunately, its eyes never really move away from the subject. It blankly stares at its subject matter constantly, drawing out the few minutes as it takes to sketch the bare outlines of the attendee.
Was it creepy? Yes, absolutely. But the real question I know you’re asking is how good of an artist is it? Watching it draw was like watching a 3D printer construct an image. It did not create long, clean lines but jerky, short scribbles that eventually constructed an outline of the CES-goer. -Kyle Barr
