A portrait of the mathematician Alan Turing painted by a humanoid robot fetched over a million euros at Sotheby's auction house. Will the sale forever change art? It was only estimated to sell for around $150,000 (€142,300). But what Sotheby's calls the first auction of an artwork by a humanoid robot went under the hammer for nearly $1.

1 million in New York on November 7. The 2.2-meter-high (7.

2-foot-high) painting created by the robot Ai-Da is titled "A.I. God.

Portrait of Alan Turing ." The work captures the pioneering computer scientist and mathematician who was celebrated as "the man who cracked the Nazi code," but was later vilified as a gay man. "My portrait of Alan Turing in this, the 70th year since his death, are a tribute to one of the most profound thinkers in the history of technology and artificial intelligence ," said Ai-Da, a feminized robot with a bob hairstyle who spoke thanks to AI language tools.

Ai-Da is an extremely advanced humanoid who creates artworks with her own bionic hands. Featured at the 2022 Venice Biennale, Ai-Da's paintings of pop music legends from Diana Ross to Billie Eilish were also exhibited at the Glastonbury Festival that same year. Can an AI robot take over the arts? To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video What is an artist? One person who was surprised by the auction events in London is Henrik Hanstein, head of the Lempertz auction house in Cologne, Germany, and .