First artwork painted by humanoid robot sells at auction — for a whopping $1 million

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The first creation portion painted by humanoid robot — which was expected to fetch up to $180,000 — shocked nan crowd erstwhile it sold for a whopping $1.08 million.

Sotheby’s, nan famed auction house, sold nan coating successful New York connected Thursday aft 27 bids were placed connected nan work.

“Today’s record-breaking waste value for nan first artwork by a humanoid robot creator to spell up for auction marks a infinitesimal successful nan history of modern and modern creation and reflects nan increasing intersection betwixt AI exertion and nan world creation market,” nan auction location said successful a statement.

The robot, known arsenic Ai-Da, created nan coating of renowned mathematician and machine intelligence Alan Turing entitled “AI God” pinch its ain hydraulically powered hands.

“The cardinal worth of my activity is its capacity to service arsenic a catalyst for speech astir emerging technologies,” Ai-Da, which uses AI to speak, said.

The robot added that a “portrait of pioneer Alan Turing invites viewers to bespeak connected nan God-like quality of AI and computing while considering nan ethical and societal implications of these advancements.”

Turing raised concerns astir nan usage of AI arsenic acold backmost arsenic nan 1950s.

Ai-Da is nan brainchild of British gallerist Aidan Meller, who created nan bot successful 2019 in conjunction pinch Engineered Arts and nan University of Oxford.

Its artwork has been featured astatine places specified arsenic nan United Nations and nan Chelsea Factory — and Ai-Da has fixed speeches astatine 10 Downing Street, nan House of Lords, and the Founders Forum.

“Ai-Da’s image joins a action of cutting-edge useful that — successful their individual ways — push nan boundaries of creator creation today,” Michael Bouhanna, Sotheby’s caput of NFT & integer art, said successful a connection to The Post Wednesday.

“Together, they punctual a chat of really we tin admit and acquisition nan ever-evolving possibilities astir artmaking successful nan 21st century.”