Introduction

Have you ever wondered how much an AI-generated image is worth? If you’re a robot painting British mathematician and famous code-breaker Alan Turing, about $1M.

The name of the masterpiece? A.I. GOD (2024).

The robot painter, named Ai-Da (an homage to Ada Lovelace, of course) was built by a crew of 30 people, and is apparently already on painting arm #3—turns out even robot artists get repetitive motion injuries.

The art estimators at Sothebys thought it would only sell for $120K-$180K, so they were pretty surprised when it sold over $1M.

Interesting Fact

Here’s the wild part: Ai-Da’s creators say most of that $1M+ is going straight to the robot’s maintenance and power bills. Typical starving artist, am I right?

So, before you go out and build your own art-bot, make sure you’ve got a backup plan—or you and your poor bot might have to “go get a real job”.