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AI powered vending machine engages users in creating artwork

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March 20, 2023

Visitors to the Rundle Place shopping mall in South Australia can engage in conversations with an AI-powered vending machine to create artwork, according to a report in The National Tribune.

Artists Dave Court and James Brown teamed with the University of Adelaide's Australian Institute for Machine Learning to build the ARTofficial Truth Machine ATM-001, which uses AI software to engage in conversations with users.

The innovation, which houses a display screen, camera and microphone. was created as part of the Adelaide CreaTech City Challenge to engage audiences and encourage investment in Adelaide's public spaces.

Once a user pushes the start button, the camera recognizes them and the machine greets them and begins an audio conversation.

The machine can collaborate with the user to create an artwork based on the "opinion" the machine forms.

The machine assumes various synthetic personalities, such as Richard Pryor, Dame Edna Everage and inhuman automation.

Creations to date include custom-made digital art, personalized feedback written as poetry and plant seeds wrapped in art posters, all contributing to an online gallery.

Machine learning engineers built the AI software using the GPT-3 language model that creates human-like responses similar to the ChatGPT chatbot.