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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.

 

 

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