{"id":23771,"date":"2016-03-20T09:48:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T16:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/the-next-picasso-is-a-robot"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:05:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:05:26","slug":"the-next-picasso-is-a-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/the-next-picasso-is-a-robot","title":{"rendered":"The Next Picasso Is a Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-next-picasso-is-a-robot.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Your next favorite artist, writer, or musician might be a robot.<\/p>\n<p>As the gap between man and machine narrows, it becomes harder to identify what makes humans unique. Robots can perform myriad physical tasks, they can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2016\/03\/06\/would-you-vote-for-a-robot.html\">express emotions<\/a> (even if they don\u2019t actually feel them), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2016\/02\/24\/don-t-pass-go-ai-will-beat-you-at-pretty-much-everything.html\">they can learn<\/a>. So what makes humans special?<\/p>\n<p>Some people think it\u2019s the presence of a soul, though that argument invades sticky philosophical territory and can\u2019t be empirically proven. Cynics might say humans are the only species to make and use weapons specifically to hurt others, but that\u2019s not exactly a reason to boast. Others suggest humans are singular for their ability to make art. From the Mona Lisa to the Taj Mahal, <i>Homo sapiens<\/i>\u2019 facility for imbuing canvas, stone, sound, and words with beauty and imagination is unparalleled.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2016\/03\/20\/the-next-picasso-is-a-robot.html\">http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2016\/03\/20\/the-next-pi...robot.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your next favorite artist, writer, or musician might be a robot. As the gap between man and machine narrows, it becomes harder to identify what makes humans unique. Robots can perform myriad physical tasks, they can express emotions (even if they don\u2019t actually feel them), and they can learn. So what makes humans special? Some [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67952,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23771\/revisions\/67952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}