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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: AI Robotic Arms Have Learned to Copy an Artist's Brush Strokes [Watch (HLS stream): AI Robotic Arms Have Learned to Copy an Artist's Brush Strokes](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/hNlfnLIf.m3u8) (2:00)  _Published 2024-10-04. As artificial intelligence continues to evolve, blurring the line between human and machine in the art world, one artist is embracing this moment and the use of machine-learning. Chinese-Canadian artist and researcher Sougwen Chung created D.O.U.G.(Drawing Operations Unit: Generation_2), a robot they taught to copy brush strokes, so the two can paint together._ --- Oct 4, 2024 8:20 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [For Artist Sougwen Chung, AI Is a Tool For Exploring ‘Hybridity’](/video/SZklXXim/) ### For Artist Sougwen Chung, AI Is a Tool For Exploring ‘Hybridity’ [TIME100 AI Innovators: Sougwen Chung](/video/S22RQ3Tp/) ### TIME100 AI Innovators: Sougwen Chung [See An Artist's Rendition Of Siding Spring's Encouter With Mars](/video/fVAswBXU/) ### See An Artist's Rendition Of Siding Spring's Encouter With Mars --- ## Transcript Got. Guan managed to do something very impressive where she merges the robots with her work. They don't work separately. They work together. So it's a teamwork. They don't work without her. She doesn't work without them. And she had over ten years of res, how to teach them and to teach them to follow her brain waves, her own ideas and her own work. With Sugan is something very different. There is another world opening, meaning where the physical art and digital art actually crosses the paths. And to be honest, I was very surprised where I come, you know, from the collectors world, where they always want a canvas, a sculpture, a very timeless works that they can always look at, even in 20 years, that it doesn't really loses the value and that impression of the art. But they loved Sugan. We have the opportunity to explore ourselves in another form, our collective states to learn through the machine as collaborator and the algorithm as creative catalyst. By building a world through my own tools and my own datasets, I've experienced the beauty of imperfect systems, the real labor involved in training an AI model on two decades of my own artwork, and how firsthand computer vision algorithms shape how we see ourselves and each other. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"AI Robotic Arms Have Learned to Copy an Artist's Brush Strokes","description":"As artificial intelligence continues to evolve, blurring the line between human and machine in the art world, one artist is embracing this moment and the use of machine-learning.\nChinese-Canadian artist and researcher Sougwen Chung created D.O.U.G.(Drawing Operations Unit: Generation_2), a robot they taught to copy brush strokes, so the two can paint together.\n","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/hNlfnLIf/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2024-10-04T19:38:32.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/hNlfnLIf.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/hNlfnLIf/","duration":"PT2M","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/hNlfnLIf/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```