Humanoid robot artwork sold for over a million dollars

An artist robot named AI-Da has created an art painting and named it “AI God. Portrait of Alan Turing” (AI God. Portrait of Alan Turing); Interestingly, this painting created by this robot artist was sold for 1.08 million dollars in a New York auction.

It was expected that this 2-meter work of art would sell for only $120,000 to $180,000; But the Sotheby’s auction surprised everyone. According to a Sotheby’s auctioneer, the record breaking price for a humanoid robot artwork marked a historic moment in the world of modern and contemporary art and reflected the growing connection between artificial intelligence technology and the global art market.

The artist robot AI-Da uses artificial intelligence to speak; Regarding his artwork, he said: “The key value of my work lies in the ability to stimulate conversation about emerging technologies. The portrait of Alan Turing, a pioneer in the field of computing, invites the audience to think about the nature of artificial intelligence and to consider the moral and social implications of these developments.

Who was Alan Turing and what did he do?

Alan Turing was a mathematician and one of the first computer scientists who played an important role during World War II by breaking the codes of Nazi Germany‘s Enigma encryption machine. He is known as the father of computer science.

What do we know about AI-Da humanoid robot?

AI-Da humanoid robot is one of the most advanced robots today; The robot looks like a woman and its name was inspired by Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer.

“Idan Meller”, the leader of the team that created AI-Da, says about this humanoid robot: “This robot forms its ideas through conversations with studio members, and in one of the conversations on the topic of “Artificial Intelligence for Good”, the proposal He created an image of Turing.

In the next step, AI-Da was asked to specify the style, color, content, tone and texture of the work; Finally, using cameras embedded in its eyes, the said robot looked at an image of Turing and created its own drawing based on it.

Aidan Meller said of the artwork: “The dull colors and broken parts of the face seem to depict the struggles that Turing warned us about managing artificial intelligence.”

According to Meller, the works of this humanoid robot are surreal and mysterious, and they continue to make us question where the power of artificial intelligence will take humans and what fate the global competition to control it will lead to.