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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Did the humanoid robot sign the work?
If the value is because its a “first” then what happens if others come along and claim they actually did it first. How do we relaly know this is a “first”? There could be a glut of this so-called early robotic art.
I am skeptical it retains much value let alone $1M.
Money laundering
Aaand, how do we know the artwork wasn’t pre-programmed into the robot?
I’m skeptical too because I suspect that machine could produce another one exactly like it.
That probably hurts market value when you bought the only one in the world. Then someone makes another one.
Better art than Hunter’s at least.
Apparently ugly “art” is an outgrowth of communism. Buildings are ugly, clothing is ugly, industrial design is ugly. The thing that made previous art timeless is that it is beautiful. This ugly stuff is not going to maintain value. Apparently trans, ugly brutalized people is also an outgrowth of communism. Go figure.
110%. Every single “art” gallery is nothing but a money laundering center.
So, some people will pay big money for the output of a computer program as long as it’s called “AI”.
As I recall, other people paid good money for a “painting” done by a monkey.
The Detroit area autoworkers in the 1980s, in the first phase of losing hundreds of thousands of jobs to robot devices: If we all lose our jobs and our suppliers and the places we used to spend our money dry up, then they should sell the cars to robots to drive them.
Actually, the self-driving cars and other “autonomous vehicles” were later invented.
Some AI entity should buy the robot art with Bitcoin funds.
As with Hunter’s “art” they probably have lots of AI generated “critics” who will acclaim it.
Or W’s.
The resale price of his work should be much lower than the original sale price. Hunter’s that is.
Dot Matrix would make an okay Bond Girl name, too.
It worked in Spaceballs :)
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“Money laundering”
Yep
I’d rather have one painted by an elephant.
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