In an unusual auction, a painting created by a robot named Ai-Da sold for over $1 million, marking a record for AI-created artwork.
The piece, a portrait of famed mathematician and WWII code-breaker Alan Turing, was auctioned for $1,084,800, far exceeding its estimated price of $100,000 to $150,000. Ai-Da is a humanoid robot that looks like a woman and uses advanced technology, including cameras and artificial intelligence, to create paintings, drawings, and sculptures.
To create this artwork, Ai-Da used programming with complex algorithms to produce fifteen portraits of Turing. From these, it selected three to combine, adding an image of Turing’s “bombe machine” — a device he helped invent to decode enemy messages in WWII. The chosen images were uploaded to a computer and printed onto a large 2.28-meter-high canvas, which Ai-Da then textured with her robotic arms. Studio assistants helped add finishing touches since Ai-Da couldn’t reach the edges of the canvas.
This artwork by Ai-Da, the first robot to have its work sold at a major auction house, is sparking conversation about the role of technology in art. Ai-Da explained that her goal is to encourage discussions about how technology is changing creative fields and our world.
very interesting
I loved reading it because, I never knew that maybe chocolate might be gone in the future!
save the chocolate…
I enjoyed this reading because
it show what climate changes does!!
they might have to move most chocolate into a colder place, since the climate clock is getting low
so temperature might get higher.
i love chocolate
I’m allergic to dairy, but this makes me sad for my best friends all around NZ (don’t think it’s weird because I actually do). And my chocolate loving cousin, her name is Dana (I’m from South Korea and she told me how to spell her name in Korean but its not pronounced like Dana).
I know that there are chocolate lovers around the world so, poor them or if you like chocolate poor you (even though I’m allergic to dairy, or to make it easy dairy products: cheese, milk, butter etc).