Drawing a comic book page using
Human Level Artificial Intelligence
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In this video, a
robot is given instructions to draw a comic book
page. There are no sound in the video because I
wanted to show the viewers what the robot is thinking
while making a drawing. The flashing text and freeze
frames are the internal thoughts of the robot and not
instruction text for the viewers. These internal
thoughts describe the details of how the robot
produce intelligence.
My robot doesn't use:
planning programs/heuristic searches (used by MIT and
Stanford University), Bayesian's probability theories
for decision making, Bayesian's equation for
induction and deduction, semantic networks for
natural language understanding, predicate calculus,
common sense systems, first-order logic, rule-based
systems, genetic programming, or MACHINE LEARNING. By
the way, you can't use current AI methods to build a
robot that can draw a comic book. For example, the
IBM Watson can't be used to draw comic books. Those
researchers can spend 50 years programming
instructions into the Watson, their code foundation
disallows their robot to draw a comic book (or do
complex human tasks).
In the video, the
robot was given instructions to draw 1 comic book
page. A script was given to the robot by a comic book
writer and this script describes what the writer
wants the artist to draw. Using common sense, the
robot interprets the script and he begins to
brainstorm ideas to make a sketch of the page. All
comic book artists have to make a sketch of a page
before proceeding to draw. The robot brainstorms
ideas and alternative designs for the page.
Ultimately he will select the best layout for the
comic book page. The next step is to make a sketch of
the page by drawing stick figures on scratch paper.
Here, the robot will define how many panels to draw,
how large each panels are, where to place characters
and objects, what camera angle to use, determine
perspective and layout, and so forth. The idea is to
create a dynamic comic book page that fits into the
standards of the comic book industry.
This video only
covers how the robot make the layout of the comic
book page and doesn't go into the details of the
drawing. He does this by making a sketch on scratch
paper. As soon as the robot is done with the sketch,
he uses this sketch as an outline to make the actual
drawing on a 11x17 page. I think i did 5-6 videos on
drawing comic books. If you view these videos
sequentially you can see how the robot thinks while
making an entire comic book.