portrait "A.I. God" by "Ai-Da", the world's first ultra-realistic robot artist, went for $1,084,800, smashing pre-sale expectations of $180,000 at auction house Sotheby's Digital Art Sale.

would explore the intersection between art and technology, according to Sotheby's. The ultra-realistic robot is designed to resemble a human female with a face, large eyes and a brown wig and is ...

[2] Ai-Da is an ultra-realistic robot designed to look like ... Studio assistants also added texture to the artwork, as Ai-Da’s robotic painting arm could not reach the edges of the large ...

Today, of course, that concern is even more prescient as AI becomes ubiquitous in our everyday lives, dumbing down works of art and destroying ... with realistic companion robots, which one ...