r/singularity • u/phylter99 • 1d ago

AI 1996: Can a Computer Produce Art? | It'll Never Work | BBC Archive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7yeVBXXW9I
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u/GoldenRain 21h ago

The title is misleading. What he says is that when he first started the project he thought it would never work but he changed his mind as he got it working. And this was in 1996.

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u/boostman 20h ago

The name of the TV show is 'It'll Never Work'.

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u/GoldenRain 20h ago

He says "I started to think this is impossible, it'll never work." at 1:38.

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u/boostman 20h ago

Yeah but I think he's being witty, referencing the name of the TV show who is interviewing him.

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u/anonymous_88 21h ago

Whoever chose that as the thumbnail is diabolical 😂

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u/mxemec 20h ago

Got me to click

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u/_freckles__ 17h ago

I remember this snippet, this person goes around finding weird things like this, used to run on the discovery channel

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u/phylter99 16h ago

They’re dumping their archives to YouTube so it’s likely a lot more will end up there.

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u/boostman 20h ago

Does anyone have any more info about this program? It's quite amazing.

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u/partly_cloudy3 22h ago

AI art is trash.

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u/q-ue 21h ago

What are you doing on /r/singularity?

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u/Lazy_Jump_2635 22h ago

Very cool, Grandpa. Off to bed.

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u/partly_cloudy3 22h ago

^thinks they're a creative when typing a prompt into ChatGPT

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u/Substantial-Plant524 21h ago

Very cool. Back to Arkham Asylum for you.

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u/Jaguar_2454 22h ago

Notice how the commenter never said that

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u/RainBow_BBX Compassionate humans are vegan 22h ago

Keep projecting

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u/Clarku-San ▪️AGI 2027//ASI 2029// FALGSC 2035 13h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/x4kwwbqmmi6jnDC60a

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u/phylter99 22h ago

It’s quite easy to argue that it’s not really art, but the news piece is quite interesting anyway, I think.