The first work of art made by a humanoid robot with Artificial intelligence (IA) that reaches an auction reached a record sale price at Sotheby’s in London equivalent to 1.08 million dollars or just over one million euros.
The auction house had estimated that it would sell for a maximum of 139,000 pounds sterling ($180,000 or 167,000 euros), but the bidding for “AI God,” a 2.2-meter-high portrait of the British mathematician and computer pioneer Alan Turing, grew until it reached a record number.
In total there were 27 bids for the work of the Ai-Da robot, also named Ada Lovelace after the first female computer programmer, and it was finally sold to an anonymous buyer, according to Sotheby’s.
In a statement the auction house said that the sale price achieved for the first work of art created by a humanoid robot artist that is auctioned “marks a moment in the history of modern and contemporary art and reflects the growing intersection between artificial intelligence technology and the global art market.”
The robot, which looks like a casually dressed young woman with short black hair, made a series of 15 Alan Turing paintings in just eight hours but only one was auctioned.
Turing played a crucial role in the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in World War II by helping to crack codes and crack the German Enigma machine, and after the war he made a detailed design for a digital computer in the modern sense. .
Ai-Da, who uses an advanced artificial intelligence language model to speak, said in a video released on the occasion of the sale of his work: “the key value of my work is that it can serve as a catalyst for dialogue about technologies.” emerging”.
The robot said that the work “invites viewers to reflect on the divine nature of AI and computing, while considering the ethical and social implications of these advances”.
“Alan Turing recognized this potential and is staring at us as we run towards this future,” the humanoid created by Robot Studios said in a video.
Aidan Meller, the designer of this artist robot, a modern art specialist who worked with AI specialists from the universities of Oxford and Birmingham, said: “This auction is an important moment for the visual arts, where Ai’s artwork -Da puts the focus on the world of art and social changes, as we deal with the growing era of AI.