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First artwork painted by humanoid robot to sell at auction fetches $1m
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/nov/08/alan-turing-portrait-ai-da-robot-painting-sale-price-auction ^

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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TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: ai; art; artists
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1 posted on 11/09/2024 11:44:30 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Did the humanoid robot sign the work?


2 posted on 11/09/2024 11:47:56 AM PST by xp38
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To: BenLurkin

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.


3 posted on 11/09/2024 11:48:32 AM PST by plain talk
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To: BenLurkin

Money laundering


4 posted on 11/09/2024 11:51:58 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: BenLurkin

Aaand, how do we know the artwork wasn’t pre-programmed into the robot?


5 posted on 11/09/2024 11:52:50 AM PST by ArtDodger
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To: plain talk

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.


6 posted on 11/09/2024 11:54:31 AM PST by Sarcazmo (I live by the Golden Rule. As applied by others; I'm not selfish.)
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To: Organic Panic

Better art than Hunter’s at least.


7 posted on 11/09/2024 11:55:01 AM PST by xp38
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To: plain talk

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.


8 posted on 11/09/2024 11:56:24 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Organic Panic

110%. Every single “art” gallery is nothing but a money laundering center.


9 posted on 11/09/2024 11:56:28 AM PST by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: BenLurkin
They should have called her, "Dot Matrix."
10 posted on 11/09/2024 11:58:02 AM PST by Joe 6-pack
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To: BenLurkin

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.


11 posted on 11/09/2024 11:58:25 AM PST by I want the USA back (Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


12 posted on 11/09/2024 11:59:50 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: xp38

Or W’s.


13 posted on 11/09/2024 12:00:24 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)
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To: xp38

The resale price of his work should be much lower than the original sale price. Hunter’s that is.


14 posted on 11/09/2024 12:03:50 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: Joe 6-pack

Dot Matrix would make an okay Bond Girl name, too.


15 posted on 11/09/2024 12:05:50 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

It worked in Spaceballs :)


16 posted on 11/09/2024 12:08:19 PM PST by Joe 6-pack
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humanoid-robot-Ai-Da-portrait of alan-turing

17 posted on 11/09/2024 12:14:57 PM PST by Liz ( )
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To: Organic Panic

“Money laundering”


Yep


18 posted on 11/09/2024 12:15:28 PM PST by Ken H (Trump 2024)
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To: BenLurkin

I’d rather have one painted by an elephant.


19 posted on 11/09/2024 12:25:09 PM PST by Track9
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To: Joe 6-pack

Brilliant, you win the internet today!


20 posted on 11/09/2024 12:46:45 PM PST by GMThrust
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