Creepy ‘AI God’ art painted by humanoid robot fetches whooping $1.3million in ‘world first’ auction

ARTWORK painted by a humanoid robot has fetched $1.3million astatine auction, acold exceeding expectations, successful a satellite first.

Ai-Da, named aft Ada Lovelace, is the archetypal robot to person its artwork sold astatine a large auction house, Sotheby's.

The auction for an abstract coating of Alan Turing, titled 'AI God', ran from 31 October to 7 November.

It was expected to merchantability for determination betwixt $120,000 and $180,000.

"My artwork is simply a representation of Alan Turing, the superb British mathematician who laid the instauration for modern computing and artificial intelligence," Ai-Da said of her artwork.

"The representation has a fractured and layered quality, reflecting our current, fragmented and multifaceted worlds."

The Turing representation is portion of a five-panelled polyptych, which was displayed astatine a United Nations planetary acme connected AI successful Geneva earlier this year.

The process saw Ai-Da overgarment respective tiny portraits of Alan Turing, earlier combining them and scaling them up onto a ample canvas.

Studio Assistants past adhd a decorativeness to the artwork, aft which Ai-Da paints connected apical of the canvas adding caller marks and texture.

Ai-Da was created by a squad of scientists, led by Aidan Meller, astatine Oxford University successful aboriginal 2019.

The abstract of Turing, signed 'A', was inspired by his relation arsenic the begetter of modern machine science, having cracked Nazi codes during World War II.

However, successful 1952, Turing was charged with “gross indecency” erstwhile helium admitted to having a intersexual narration with a man.

"We are perfectly successful that transitional constituent of going from a quality satellite wherever humans marque each the decisions to a post-human world, wherever the algorithms are starting to marque each the decisions," Meller told Reuters.

"I deliberation really to item that with the eventual look 'A.I. God' is simply a truly bully mode of really showing that value arsenic we transition."

One of the apical concerns surrounding the tech is that alternatively of AI picking up laborious tasks and leaving the 'fun stuff' similar creation and euphony to humans - it could beryllium the different mode around.

AI creation generators are becoming progressively sophisticated, portion Ai-Da's archetypal auction whitethorn spell the commencement of a worrying trend.

"Is it art? Well, that's up to the assemblage to decide," Meller added.

"Our absorption is an ethical arts task that explores the existent opening of the Fourth Industrial Revolution," helium said.

The proceeds volition spell toward Ai-Da’s continued development.