Sotheby's to auction humanoid robot Ai-Da's Alan Turing portrait, up to $180K
CyberRobooo · x · 2026-09-09
Sotheby's will auction a painting created by humanoid robot Ai-Da — a 7-foot-plus portrait of Alan Turing titled 'AI God,' painted with her hydraulically powered arms and estimated at up to $180,000.
- Ai-Da has camera eyes and an internal LLM, letting her converse and compose poetry
- The robot said the work commemorates Turing's contributions to computing and AI
- Sotheby's head of digital art says the portrait pushes the boundaries of artistic creation
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