Amravati (Aditya Pratap), November 09: A painting created by a humanoid robot artist named Ai-Da has made history in the auction of selling a painting of Alan Turning, a mathematician and computer scientist. This robot created painting was sold for $1.3 million at Sotheby’s . The Digital Art Day Auction between October 31st and November 7th, 2024, in New York City, Ai-Da’s painting was the first portrait to be auctioned from a human robot.
Now, at AI for Good Global Summit at the United Nations in Geneva, there were 27 bids for the portrait of mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing, Between the auction that the house has expected it to fetch between 120,000 and 180,000 USD, but at the end, an undiscovered buyer acquired the painting for a lump sum of 1,320,000 USD, making it a new record-breaking sale of its kind of AI’s auction. The large scale painting is an original of Ai-Da. It is a chain of connection in a way because the humanoid robot’s AI and algorithms allow her to illustrate the frame. The size of the frame was 64 by 90.5 inches.
The Ai-Da humanoid robot draws and paints through a combination of cameras putted in her eyes, AI algorithms, and a robotic arm. Photos show the robot depicted as a woman with a black wig styled in a bob, dressed in a t-shirt, and appearing in denim overalls. The name of the robot is a reference to computer programmer “Ada Lovelace”.
While talking about her intelligence, in case it’s not yet known by you that Ai-Da can talk. In fact, she comments about the recent Sotheby’s acquisition, saying that ‘by commemorating Alan Turing in my artwork, which was displayed at the United Nations, I aim to honour his contributions towards the foundation of modern computing and artificial intelligence.’ She added that she was inspired by Donna J. Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto. As a result, the humanoid robot artist has painted a portrait that she imagined can bring up discussion about the blurring edges between humans and machines. ‘I help bring these questions into focus,’.
