October 16, 2024 – 4:49 pm
Ai-Da will be the first artificial intelligence (AI) robot whose paintings will be auctioned at a London auction house. Radio France French broadcaster. The image titled “AI God” bears an eerily similar resemblance to English mathematician Alan Turing, considered the father of modern computing.
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The 2.2-meter-tall painting is scheduled to be sold at Sotheby's auction house in London next November, and is expected to fetch between 100 and 150 thousand pounds sterling (about 48 and 72 million forints). According to Sotheby's Auction House, the auction will include a wide range of digital art forms, and the focus of the event will be the intersection of art and technology.
The realistic robot is designed to look like a human woman with her face, large eyes, and brown wig. Ai-Da is powered by artificial intelligence, has cameras mounted in its eyes, and has bionic hands.
Gallery owner Aidan Miller, founder of Ai-Da Robot Studio, led the team that created the world's most advanced robot alongside AI experts from the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham. Miller said Alan Turing, a famous code-breaker, mathematician and computer scientist, warned of the dangers of artificial intelligence as early as the 1950s.
According to Miller, the work's “dull tones and broken features” indicate Turing's anxiety. The gallery owner said of Ai-Da's works that they are scary and that it is not known where the development of artificial intelligence will lead.
Ai-Da also drew portraits of performers at England's Glastonbury Festival in 2022, including Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Paul McCartney.
