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Robots sculpt marble in Italy, sparking worries about future of art form
YouTube ^ | November 12, 2024 | 60 Minutes

Posted on 11/14/2024 9:38:46 PM PST by SunkenCiv

A fleet of marble-sculpting robots is carving out the future of the art world. It's a move some artists see as cheating, but others are embracing the change.
Robots sculpt marble in Italy, sparking worries about future of art form | 13:17
60 Minutes | 3.27M subscribers | 349,894 views | November 12, 2024
Robots sculpt marble in Italy, sparking worries about future of art form | 60 Minutes | 13:17 | 60 Minutes | 3.27M subscribers | 349,894 views | November 12, 2024

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: 60minutes; ai; art; godsgravesglyphs; italy; marble; robots; sculpture
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1 posted on 11/14/2024 9:38:46 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...

2 posted on 11/14/2024 9:39:21 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Can you add me to this list? Pathetic that I can’t figure out how.


3 posted on 11/14/2024 9:44:27 PM PST by montag813
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To: SunkenCiv

Cheating...


4 posted on 11/14/2024 9:48:17 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI..)
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To: montag813

Thanks, will do!


5 posted on 11/14/2024 9:51:16 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: DesertRhino

[singing] everybody must carve stone...


6 posted on 11/14/2024 9:56:19 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: DesertRhino

“Cheating...”

Fair enough. But the same could probably have been said with the introduction of any new technology to the field. The first sculptor to use electric power tools probably heard “cheater” from the guys just using hammers and chisels.

If a robot can chisel out a near-perfect replica of the Venus de Milo or Michelangelo’s David or Augustus of Prima Porta, I’d imagine that there’ll be a market for that sort of thing.


7 posted on 11/14/2024 10:05:20 PM PST by irishjuggler
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To: SunkenCiv

all the time or just rainy days?


8 posted on 11/14/2024 10:08:42 PM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma deuce)
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To: irishjuggler

You miss the point. Reproductions/replicas are not art, they are copies.


9 posted on 11/14/2024 10:09:23 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn)
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To: going hot

There’s a robotic bumbershoot that helps with that.


10 posted on 11/14/2024 10:11:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Don W

Perfect counterfeits, and if from same quarry, who can tell?


11 posted on 11/14/2024 10:12:20 PM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma deuce)
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To: Don W

You miss the point. I never said that such things weren’t copies.


12 posted on 11/14/2024 10:14:28 PM PST by irishjuggler
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To: SunkenCiv

13 posted on 11/14/2024 10:26:10 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Don W

Are you saying if I take a picture of the mona lisa or do a step by step “paint by numbers” copy - that’s it’s different than creating the original work of art?


14 posted on 11/14/2024 11:38:07 PM PST by GOPJ (Offer illegals $2,000, free ticket home & place on list to come back IF they leave voluntarily )
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To: irishjuggler

“The first sculptor to use electric power tools probably heard “cheater” from the guys just using hammers and chisels.”

True... but at least he had to sculpt. He couldn’t go into town for a sandwich and let the power tools do it all.


15 posted on 11/14/2024 11:46:54 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI..)
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To: DesertRhino

Of course, there can be human creativity in designing what the robotic arm chisels out. That’s not to say that AI-created designs wouldn’t also be possible.


16 posted on 11/15/2024 12:01:32 AM PST by irishjuggler
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To: SunkenCiv

If they can do Michaelangelo, they can do McDonalds - let’s keep raising that minimum wage!


17 posted on 11/15/2024 1:48:01 AM PST by Stosh
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To: SunkenCiv
Old Money hates fine marble sculpture replication in the same way they hate Trump: it attacks their very shaky standing in the social pecking order, the attention they get, their special access to the best. They cannot compete.

Really, robot sculpting isn't much different than music replication. Before Edison invented recording technology, average musicians could make a reasonable living playing live in their home towns. Now they are relegated to providing music lessons to the bratty children of the rich, for an hourly minimum wage, while a very few lucky musicians of equal talent make millions of dollars every year through the fickle finger of fate, even after their death.

18 posted on 11/15/2024 2:47:06 AM PST by Reeses
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To: Reeses

>the fickle finger of fate,

And the star-making machinery behind the popular song.

Probably more so that.


19 posted on 11/15/2024 3:29:17 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: SunkenCiv

This could actually be a good thing.
Instead of relying upon modern art to decorate public spaces/buildings... classical art forms could be utilized.
Rather than being channeled into what artists want (and the dismal art they currently produce), robots could open the market to what society wants.


20 posted on 11/15/2024 4:47:16 AM PST by VetoBill
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