A portrait of Alan Turing created by a robot has been auctioned for more than £800,000 and made history in the process. Ai-Da Robot, named after Ada Lovelace, who is considered to be the first computer programmer, has become the first humanoid robotic artist to have their artwork sold by a major auction house.

The robot was inspired by Alan Turing and his worries about the role of AI in the society of the future. Ironically.

An AI robot’s painting of British computer scientist and codebreaker Alan Turing has sold for $1.08 million, becoming the most valuable artwork by a humanoid robot ever to change hands at auction and raising new questions about the role of artificial intelligence in art.