A portrayal of Alan Turing, considered one of the fathers of Artificial Intelligence( AI), brought over a million bones at a recent art transaction. The catch? It was painted by Ai- Da, the world’s first creatural robot artist.
meetly named ‘ A.I God’, the piece depicting the notorious British mathematician was vended for a whopping$( Rs 9.15 crore, roughly) at Sotheby’s Digital Art trade, far exceeding the organisers’ original estimates of$ 180,000( Rs 1.5 crore, roughly.)
The oil, which depicts Turing as the god of AI, entered a aggregate of 27 flings and was ultimately vended to an anonymous buyer in the US, according to a report by The New York Times.
What do we know about Ai- Da?
Ai- Da has been named after Ada Lovelace, a 19th century mathematician conceded as the world’s first computer programmer. The creatural robot was developed in 2019 by Aidan Meller, a former gallery proprietor and expert at ultramodern art, along with a platoon of 30 people, including AI experimenters from Oxford and Birmingham universities in the UK.
The humanoid has been designed with facial features that act a mortal woman and sports a posy hairstyle of brown hair. “ She’s able of drawing and painting using cameras in her eyes, AI algorithms, and her robotic arm, ” the humanoid’s functionary website reads.
Ai- Da’s creator Meller said that he urged the creatural to paint commodity for an AI conference organised by the United Nations. The robot responded by suggesting a portrayal of Turing, known to have prognosticated the power of AI back in the 1950s.
How did Ai- Da produce the portrayal?
Coming to the factual oil of the portrayal, Ai- Da first analyse one of Turing’s prints and reportedly made around 15 different oils of colorful corridor of his face. Three of those pictures as well as a oil of a decryption machine used by Turing were also scrutinized and uploaded to a computer. Ai- Da’s beginning language model was used to put together a single oil and published out using a 3- D textured printer.
