Mathematician Turing was a pioneer of computer science and known as the father of artificial intelligence (AI ... Ai-Da Robot Studios In total Ai-Da Robot made 15 paintings of Alan Turing, which took up to eight hours to complete The work is a large ...

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.

Artificial intelligence ventured into new territories when Ai-Da, the robot artist’s painting, sold for $1.08 million at a closed auction in New York. The drawing was of the British mathematician Alan Turing.