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Artwork by Artificial Intelligence sells for $670,000

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An artwork created by an artificially intelligent program has been sold at auction for US$432,000 (NZ$670,000).

The final price is far higher than the $7,000-$10,000 estimate put on it by Christie’s in New York before the sale.

The painting is called Portrait of Edmond Belamy.

The artwork was produced using an algorithm and a data set of 15,000 portraits painted between the 14th and 20th Centuries.

To generate the image, the algorithm compared its own work to those in the data set until it could not tell them apart.

The portrait is the first piece of AI art to go under the hammer at a major auction house.

15 Responses

  1. No offense but i’m sure NO ONE will buy that. Maybe they made it expensive so no one would buy it, that’s what people do with cigarettes.

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