The world's first humanoid robot artist is set to make auction history at Sotheby's

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Ai-Da's painting of Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science, is set to make history as the first artwork created by a humanoid robot to be sold at a major auction house.

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00:00I am really pleased to have my artwork in the Sotheby's auction, and I hope it inspires

00:29discussion about new technologies. Alan Turing was a highly gifted mathematician and original

00:36thinker, and I'm glad this artwork, which was displayed at the United Nations in Geneva,

00:43brings focus to his contributions.

00:49It's caused quite a lot of excitement around the world as this story gets out because it's

00:57the first time a humanoid robot of this type has submitted a work. Ada doesn't have any

01:05emotions. She is a robot which doesn't have consciousness or feelings or life in any sense

01:11of form. However, the way that we relate to her, my goodness me, the way that people relate

01:17to her is incredibly emotional, both incredibly positive, they're really excited about the

01:21future and where this may lead, but also those who are really scared and are terrified and

01:26want to push this away. And actually, that is what Ada is really about, is raising those

01:32questions of those two extreme reactions to try and get some kind of middle ground to

01:36be able to discuss where we're going with all this change that's going on because of

01:40technology.

01:41I think my artwork has a personal humanoid touch to it. As an artist robot, I encourage

01:51a reconsideration of what it means to be creative. And I'm glad if my artwork sparks these types

01:58of conversations.

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