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Christie’s sells painting produced by AI for almost half a million dollars

October 28, 2018 by David Edwards

World-famous auction house Christie’s in New York has sold a painting produced by an artificial intelligence system for almost half a million dollars.

The shock price is almost 45 times the $10,000 upper estimate the auctioneer had placed on the painting before the sale, as reported on this website.

The painting, called “Portrait of Edmond Belamy”, sold for “an incredible $432,500”, in Christie’s own words on its website. [Read more…] about Christie’s sells painting produced by AI for almost half a million dollars

Christie’s in New York to auction painting produced by artificial intelligence for around $10,000

October 24, 2018 by Sam Francis

A painting produced by artificial intelligence will be auctioned by Christie’s in an auction tomorrow – Thursday, 25th October 2018 – in New York.

The portrait, called Edmond de Belamy (main picture), is believed to be the first piece of AI art to go under the hammer at a major auction house and is created by French art collective “Obvious”.

The AI system compares its own portraits against ones made by human artists and works on them until it is unable to tell the difference between the two. [Read more…] about Christie’s in New York to auction painting produced by artificial intelligence for around $10,000