AI artwork of Alan Turing sells for record $1.3m at auction

Ai-Da Robot Studios A1 pieces of artwork of Alan Turing. They show the face of Alan Turing but distorted and in dull colours. They are divided by black lines. Ai-Da Robotic Studios

Ai-Da Robotic’s ‘A.I. God’ (on the fitting) is a big scale authentic portrait of Alan Turing

A portray by an AI robotic of the eminent World Warfare Two codebreaker Alan Turing has offered for a file $1.3m (£1m) at public sale.

Sotherby’s mentioned there have been 27 bids for the digital artwork sale of “A.I. God”, which had been initially estimated to promote for between $120,000 (£9,252) and $180,000 (£139,000).

Mathematician Turing was a pioneer of pc science and referred to as the daddy of synthetic intelligence (AI).

The public sale home mentioned the historic sale “launches a brand new frontier within the world artwork market, establishing the public sale benchmark for an art work by a humanoid robotic”.

It added the work by Ai-Da Robotic is “the primary humanoid robotic artist to have an art work offered at public sale.”

Ai-Da Robot Studios An AI robot called Ai-Da, standing in front of a piece of art she has made. It shows a woman, with a dark bobbed hair, wearing a blue top, black denim dungarees, showing two robot arms.Ai-Da Robotic Studios

In whole Ai-Da Robotic made 15 work of Alan Turing, which took as much as eight hours to finish

The work is a big scale authentic portrait of Turing, who studied at King’s Faculty, Cambridge.

The scientist performed an important function within the Allies’ victory over Nazi Germany in World Warfare Two by serving to to crack codes and deciphering the notorious Enigma machine at Bletchley Park.

After the battle he produced an in depth design for a digital pc within the fashionable sense.

Sotherby’s mentioned the net sale, which ended at 19:00 GMT on Thursday, was purchased by an undisclosed purchaser for a value “far outstripping the art work’s estimate value”.

Ai-Da Robot Studios An AI originated portrait of Alan Turing, it shows is face, focusing on his eyes. The colours are dark, mainly in beige, browns and blacks. There is one small yellow dot to the left of his face and two blues ones above and below his eyes on the right.Ai-Da Robotic Studios

Alan Turing is named the daddy of recent computing

The public sale home mentioned the sale value for the primary art work by a humanoid robotic artist “marks a second within the historical past of recent and modern artwork and displays the rising intersection between A.I. know-how and the worldwide artwork market”.

Ai-Da Robotic, which makes use of a complicated A.I. language mannequin to talk, mentioned: “The important thing worth of my work is its capability to function a catalyst for dialogue about rising applied sciences.”

The work “invitations viewers to mirror on the god-like nature of AI and computing whereas contemplating the moral and societal implications of those developments”, the robotic mentioned.

“Alan Turing recognised this potential, and stares at us, as we race in the direction of this future.”

Ai-Da Robot Studios Ai-Da Robot, an AI robot, standing in front of several works of art. She is having her photo taken by two people standing in front of her. You can see a camera and a light. A man is walking away from and another man is on a mezzanine floor. The floor is green.Ai-Da Robotic Studios

In 2023 and 2024, Ai-Da Robotic participated within the United Nations International Summit on AI for Good

Aidan Meller, director of the Ai-Da Robotic Studios, mentioned: “This public sale is a crucial second for the visible arts, the place Ai-Da’s art work brings concentrate on artworld and societal modifications, as we grapple with the rising age of AI.

“The art work ‘AI God’ raises questions on company, as AI features extra energy.”

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