A portrait of English mathematician Alan Turing became the first work of art of a humanoid robot to be sold at auction, raising US$1.08 million (R$6.2 million) in New York this Thursday (7) .
The 2.2 meter painting, titled “AI God. Portrait of Alan Turing”, was created by Ai-Da, called “the world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist”. The sale price exceeded pre-auction expectations, which ranged between US$120,000 and US$180,000, when it was auctioned at Sotheby’s, which confirmed that 27 bids were made for the work.
Ai-Da was created by a team of programmers, roboticists, art experts and psychologists, and is updated as AI technology advances.
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“Today’s record sale price for the first artwork by a humanoid robot artist to be auctioned marks a moment in the history of modern and contemporary art and reflects the growing intersection between AI technology and the global art market,” the auction house said in a statement.
Turing, a mathematician and early computer scientist who played a crucial role in the fight against Nazi Germany as a codebreaker, raised concerns about the use of AI in the 1950s.
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