"SketRobo can draw images either from a preset selection or could use a camera to capture and draw custom ones. The robot was quick and accurate and even signed its name after finishing its drawing."
(SketRobo video)
The SketRobo robot will sell for about $100 this fall.
Although I wouldn't describe it as a prediction, SF fans were treated to robotically produced art in the 2003 movie I, Robot, when Sonny rapidly (!) sketched a picture of his dream about a bridge.
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A System To Defeat AI Face Recognition
'...points and patches of light... sliding all over their faces in a programmed manner that had been designed to foil facial recognition systems.'
Smart TVs Are Listening!
'You had to live -- did live, from habit that became instinct -- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard...'