Lessons from a robot auction darling

Processing the meaning of Ai-Da's $1.1m Sotheby's sale

Nov 15, 2024

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Ai-Da’s A.I. God. Portrait of Alan Turing (2024), courtesy of Aidan Meller

Is it a sign of cultural progress or decay to see the stunning auction success of a robot artist processed almost identically to the stunning auction success of a human artist? I’ve been wrestling with this question ever since a work credited to Ai-Da, a multiperson project fronte…

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