First artwork created by a humanoid robot sold for 1.32 million dollars

The portrait of Alan Turing, one of the first artworks created with artificial intelligence, was sold for 1.32 million dollars at the Sotheby's auction house in New York. The work, created by a humanoid robot named Ai-Da, highlights the growing influence of artificial intelligence in the art world and the potential of robot artists.

Alan Turing was a mathematician and early computer scientist who played a crucial role in the war against Nazi Germany and questioned the use of artificial intelligence in the 1950s.

The robot that produced the portrait, Ai-Da, was designed as a human-like female robot and was named after Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer.

At the auction, the sale of the work for a price far exceeding the estimated range of 120,000 to 180,000 dollars was a step that increased the value and acceptance of robot art. Sotheby's emphasized that the record price achieved at the auction highlights the growing intersection between modern and contemporary art and artificial intelligence.

Ai-Da's designer Aidan Meller stated that the portrait of Turing was created to spark an important conversation in both the art world and the field of technology. With this work, Ai-Da aimed to create a dialogue that questions the ethical and societal impacts of artificial intelligence.