It’s a new record for a work of art created by a robot, the auction house says

Cross-posted from “Painting by the AI robot Ai-Da sells for more than $1m at Sotheby’s” by @[email protected] in [email protected]

A painting by Ai-Da Robot, a humanoid robot powered using artificial intelligence (AI), sold for more than $1m (including auction house fees) at Sotheby’s New York on Thursday (7 November). The painting is the most valuable artwork ever sold by a robot artist, according to the auction house, driven up by 27 bids.

The painting A.I. God. Portrait of Alan Turing (2024) depicts Alan Turing, the English mathematician and Second World War cryptanalyst who is remembered as a pioneer of AI and computer science. The work was displayed earlier this year at a United Nations global summit on AI in Geneva.

  • @DarkardEnglish
    1•5 days ago

    So basically a really inefficient printer that prints out what midjorney came up with.

    Machines were supposed to take the hard and shit jobs we dont want to do. Why are we working so hard to replace the creative and entertaining ones. Bullshit