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Artist Beeple, Mike Winkelmann, poses inside his installation titled Regular Animals, with robots in the likeness of Kim Jong Un, left, Elon Musk, second left, Kim Jong Un, Jeff Bezos, center, and Mark Zuckerberg, right, at the Neue Nationalgalerie museum in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, April 28, 2026.<\/p>\n
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Robots in the likeness of Elon Musk, foreground, and Jeff Bezos, left, are displayed at the installation titled Regular Animals by artist Beeple, Mike Winkelmann, at the Neue Nationalgalerie museum in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, April 28, 2026.<\/p>\n
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A Robot in the likeness of Kim Jong Un displayed at the installation titled Regular Animals by artist Beeple, Mike Winkelmann, at the Neue Nationalgalerie museum in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, April 28, 2026.<\/p>\n
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Artist Beeple, Mike Winkelmann, poses inside his installation titled Regular Animals, with robots in the likeness of Elon Musk, left, Kim Jong Un, second left, Pablo Picasso, second right, and Andy Warhol, right, at the Neue Nationalgalerie museum in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, April 28, 2026.<\/p>\n
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From left: Robots in the likeness of Kim Jong Un, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Beeple, Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso, displayed at the installation titled Regular Animals by the artist Beeple, Mike Winkelmann, at the Neue Nationalgalerie museum in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, April 28, 2026.<\/p>\n
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BERLIN (AP) \u2014 Robot dogs with hyper-realistic silicone heads modeled after world-renowned figures \u2014 including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso \u2014 can be seen roaming around a Berlin gallery, occasionally \u201cpooing\u201d printed images of their surroundings which they’ve previously captured with integrated cameras.<\/p>\n
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The animals are part of an interactive installation by American artist Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) currently showing at Berlin’s New National Gallery.<\/p>\n
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Each printed image shows a snippet of reality transformed by AI to resemble the personality of the dog or, in other words, the worldview of the human figure on its shoulders (i.e., the Picasso dog will produce images in Cubist style and Warhol’s in pop art).<\/p>\n
It’s a commentary on how our perceptions are shaped by algorithms and technology platforms, the organizers of the exhibition write in the description of the event.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the past, our view of the world was shaped in part by how artists saw the world,\u201d Beeple told the AP. \u201cHow Picasso painted changed how we saw the word, how Warhol talked about consumerism, pop culture, that changed how he saw those things.\u201d<\/p>\n
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