How about a mural?
Posted on 11/09/2024 11:44:30 AM PST by BenLurkin
A portrait of English mathematician Alan Turing has become the first artwork by a humanoid robot to be sold at auction, fetching US$1.08m (£566,000, A$1.63m) in New York on Thursday.
The 2.2 metre (7.5 feet) portrait, titled A.I. God. Portrait of Alan Turing, was created by Ai-Da, the world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist. It smashed pre-sale expectations between $120,000 and $180,000 when it went under the hammer at Sotheby’s, which confirmed that 27 bids were placed on the work.
Ai-Da was created over two years by a team of programmers, roboticists, art experts and psychologists, and is updated as AI technology improves.
“Today’s record-breaking sale price for the first artwork by a humanoid robot artist to go up for auction 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.
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In an interview with the Guardian in 2022, when asked whether the robot painted from imagination, Ai-Da responded, “I like to paint what I see. You can paint from imagination, I guess, if you have an imagination. I have been seeing different things to humans as I do not have consciousness.”
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How about a mural?
No worse than other recent crap that sells for that kind of money.
Lol. That’s funny
Looks like 💩
I remember 60 years ago when one woman’s art went for high dollars! Her style was to place a bowl of paint covered WORMS on a horizontal canvas, then let the paint covered worms crawl off. She then filled in the gaps where the bowl was.
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