Analyzing Pablo Picasso's artwork using Human Level Artificial Intelligence

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This video shows a robot analyzing and commenting on an artwork done by Pablo Picasso. There are no sound in the video because I wanted to show the viewers what the robot is thinking while observing an artwork. 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.

In art school, students have to analyze and critique about artwork. In a typical art class, an art professor would display an artwork and let students critique about it. Some students would give facts about the art piece. Others would give personal opinions or ask a question. The collective comments made by students and the professor reveals important information about the artwork and give people insights to the artist and what his intentions were when making this artwork.

In the video, I wanted to show viewers how a robot thinks while analyzing and critiquing Picasso's artwork. As you can see, the robot has methods to observe and give information about the artwork. Sometimes the robot would comment on aspects of the painting or give facts about the artists who made the painting or give personal likes or dislikes. At the end of the video, the robot has succeeded in giving important information about a painting and reveal his own like/dislike about it.

The instructions to analyze and critique artwork is actually learned from school. On one hand, teachers teach the robot basic methods to analyze all subject matters. Thus, the robot already has basic knowledge on analyzing artwork. On the other hand, the robot has taken art classes, where art teachers go through hundreds of observation examples. During artwork discussions, the robot is listening to students talk, and ask questions, and listening to the teacher give facts about the artwork. The robot is actually imitating and copying how people analyze and critique on artwork. After many years of attending art classes, he has optimal knowledge in his brain to analyze and critique on any artwork. Thus, the knowledge to analyze artwork is based on imitation and personal experience. Some of the knowledge is based on instructions from teachers or books. For example, art teachers can tell students what to observe in an artwork (colors, compositions, perspectives, shapes, etc).