This robot artist stops to consider its brushstrokes like a real person

A team of researchers from IBM Japan, the University of Tokyo and Yamaha Motors have created a robot that uses canvas, paint and a brush to create paintings on its own. What sets this artificial intelligence apart from some of the other artistically-inclined ones we've seen in the past is that it doesn't generate the paintings it creates at random. Instead, it's programmed to work with concepts and has a set of "values" it turns to for guidance. It's possible to shape the images it creates by pr...