A work of the robot artist Ai-Daa humanoid equipped with Artificial Intelligence (AI), will come out auction on October 31, a first in the art world, announced the auction house Sotheby’s.
His portrait of the English mathematician Alan Turing, considered one of the fathers of computing, is part of the lot of this online auction that explores the “intersection between art and technology” and will remain open until November 7.
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The 2.2-meter-high painting, titled “AI God,” is expected to fetch a price of between 100,000 and 150,000 pounds ($130,000 and $196,000), according to its creators. by Ai-Da.
This robot is one of the most advanced in the world and is designed to look like a woman, with big eyes and dark brown hair.
Ai-Da was created in 2019 by a team led by Aidan Maller, gallerist and founder of Ai-Da Robot Studio, with AI specialists at the universities of Oxford and Birmingham in England.
Its name is inspired by Ada Lovelace, the first programmer in history.
The artist robot, which uses AI to create paintings or sculptures, moves and expresses autonomously, without human intervention.
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“Through my portraits of Alan Turin, I celebrate his work and contributions to the development of computing and AI,” says a statement attributed to the robot artist.
The portrait, an unstructured face with dark tones, visibly evokes the fears of
Alan Turing on the use of this technology and “continues to question how far the power of AI will take us,” stressed Aidan Maller.
Other works by Ai-Da have already been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, the Design Museum in London, the pyramids of Giza and the United Nations. This Artificial Intelligence also gave a speech before the House of Lords in 2022.
During this week of online auctions, other works that question the role of Artificial Intelligence and the definition of artistic creation will be sold.
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