A portrait of Alan Turing, thought of one of the fathers of Synthetic Intelligence (AI), fetched over one million {dollars} at a latest artwork public sale. The catch? It was painted by Ai-Da, the world’s first humanoid robot artist.
Fittingly named ‘A.I God’, the piece depicting the well-known British mathematician was sold for a whopping $1,084,800 (Rs 9.15 crore, roughly) at Sotheby’s Digital Artwork Sale, far exceeding the organisers’ preliminary estimates of $180,000 (Rs 1.5 crore, roughly.)
The painting, which depicts Turing as the god of AI, acquired a complete of 27 bids and was ultimately sold to an nameless purchaser in the US, in response to a report by The New York Instances.
What will we learn about Ai-Da?
Ai-Da has been named after Ada Lovelace, a nineteenth century mathematician acknowledged as the world’s first laptop programmer. The humanoid robot was developed in 2019 by Aidan Meller, a former gallery proprietor and knowledgeable at fashionable artwork, together with a workforce of 30 individuals, together with AI researchers from Oxford and Birmingham universities in the UK.
The humanoid has been designed with facial options that resemble a human lady and sports activities a bob haircut of brown hair. “She is succesful of drawing and painting utilizing cameras in her eyes, AI algorithms, and her robotic arm,” the humanoid’s official web site reads.
Ai-Da’s creator Meller stated that he prompted the humanoid to color one thing for an AI convention organised by the United Nations. The robot responded by suggesting a portrait of Turing, recognized to have predicted the energy of AI again in the Nineteen Fifties.
How did Ai-Da create the portrait?
Coming to the precise painting of the portrait, Ai-Da first analysed one of Turing’s photographs and reportedly made round 15 different paintings of numerous elements of his face. Three of these portraits in addition to a painting of a decryption machine utilized by Turing had been then scanned and uploaded to a pc. Ai-Da’s underlying language mannequin was used to place collectively a single painting and printed out utilizing a 3-D textured printer.
The Instances report said that studio assistants had been concerned in placing the portrait on canvas. Further marks and textures to the portrait had been made by Ai-Da, it stated.
“It’s about the transferral of company onto these machines […] The paintings is saying that we’re going right into a interval the place we ask algorithms about what accomplice we would like, what job we would like, even what infants we would like,” Meller was quoted as saying.