Recently, a robot manufactured by Aiden Meller, an expert in prevailing in emerging art forms, named Ai-Da, sold a painting at Sotheby’s auction during one of their “Digital Art Day Sales”. Twenty-seven people placed a bid on it, before it finally was bought for $1.08 million dollars. Meller himself even said, “We’re going into a post-human world where decision-making is not human, it’s increasingly algorithmic because we’ve seen it’s reliable … Ai-Da’s artwork is really showing you the potential future of where we could go.”

The painting of Alan Turing, created by the robot and artificial intelligence model, AI-Da, that sold for 1 million dollars.

However, some people don’t consider it to be quite an important achievement. The top art judge of the British publication titled, “The Telegraph”, Alastair Sooke, views the work as merely a “very sophisticated, dressed-up version of those periodic news stories about farmyard animals that can supposedly paint like Pablo Picasso.” A 3D textured printer is used for transferring the finished artwork across a larger canvas because Ai-Da’s arm is limited to painting on a tiny, 11.7 by 16.5-inch panel. “There is no change to the underlying image in this process,” according to Sotheby’s.

A picture of Ai-Da standing next to one of her most famous paintings. Licensed by Creative Commons @ 2024

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