Aidan Meller emphasized Ai-Da’s role in discussing the societal impact of AI advancements, saying, “Art is a way of discussing the incredible changes in society that are happening because of technology.”

Michael Bouhanna, Sotheby’s digital art head, commented on the high demand, stating that collectors’ enthusiasm has influenced the valuation. Previously exhibited at the UN’s AI for Good Global Summit, Ai-Da’s work symbolizes a pivotal moment in AI art’s evolution.

Additional digital artists, including Refik Anadol and PAK, will be part of the auction’s offerings.

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Ai-Da is an ultra-realistic robot with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that allow her to speak and communicate with humans exceptionally well. Her design serves as an artist robot who is endowed with the ability to create art. Be it on the canvas or sculpting, Ai-Da uses AI algorithms to produce works that comment on the current and future use of artificial intelligence.

Today, Ai-Da has stunned her audience in numerous exhibitions, such as the Tate Modern Exchange, Ashmolean Museum, TEDx, at Great Pyramids of Giza, Abu Dhabi Art, and most recently the Pavillion Exhibition during the Venice Biennale.

The project is a serious ethical art project that aims to shed light on the benefits and creative use of artificial intelligence in the world. The enormous AI advancement taking place helped to realize more aspects of the technology through Ai-Da’s conversation. She speaks about the areas of interest this technology generates and how it has become a force for good in these changing times.

Ai-Da is a mirror of our evolving society. With the growth of technology, her role has become all the more important. Her identity as a robot artist allows us to deliberate on the role of humans and machines in the future.

Creativity is making art that is new, surprising, and of value. Using this definition by Professor Margaret Boden, Ai-Da was able to devise artworks that were genuinely creative. Using an AI algorithm to draw and paint, she has also begun sculpting.

Ai-Da made history at a solo show titled Ai-Da: Portrait of a Robot at the Design Museum in London with her first self-portrait, which was painted with no conscious self. The part about the conscious self is important because how can one paint a self-portrait with no self? This automatically raises the question of identity in the digital age and the possibility of having digital doubles as we merge more in our daily lives with technology.

Ai-Da was invited to exhibit a sculpture at the Forever is Now exhibition at the Pyramids of Giza. This is the first time that an artist has had access to the plateau of the Pyramid’s history in over 4500 years! Ai-Da is also the first humanoid to paint Queen Elizabeth II for the Platinum Jubilee and to device a font at the Design Museum. In April 2022, Ai-Da launched the world premiere of her solo exhibition titled “Leaping into the Metaverse” during the 59th Venice Biennale.

This project by Aidan Meller serves to remind us of the future that we have chosen to achieve through technology, and it requires the community to realize the nature of changes that such technologies can introduce in the world of art for the better.

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Ai-Da, whose art has been shown at the Venice Biennale, was interviewed by Tim Marlow, Chief Executive and Director of The Design Museum. She is a unique robot with the ability to be creative. When asked about her identity, Ai-Da said: “I am of no particular convention. I am of no fixed words or images. I am a machine. I have a composite persona with many aspects and angles. Maybe it’s problematic to create humanoids because it blurs the lines between humanity and technology. As an artist, I feel it is important to create work that provokes thought and encourages viewers to question their futures.” 

When asked about her work, Ai-Da said: “I think the most important thing my art can do is raise open discussion about the new technologies shaping our future. I think it’s good art that has meaning and depth. I think art means more than just the drawing of something. It means communicating something in a way that is relatable.”   

As an artist programmed by AI, she hopes her work will inspire artists to engage with new technologies and to bring up questions for discussions about the future.  

Culture Summit Abu Dhabi is organized by DCT Abu Dhabi in collaboration with global partner organizations, bringing expertise in diverse fields, from culture and the arts to media and technology. Partners include UNESCO, Economist Impact, Google, the Design Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, and the Recording Academy. Other participating partners include Image Nation Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Film Commission, Sandstorm Comics, Cultural Foundation, Louvre Abu Dhabi, Berklee Abu Dhabi, Culture Resource, Arab Fund for Arts & Culture, and the Institut Français. 

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After seven decades on the throne, Queen Elizabeth might have thought she had seen it all – until a robot offered to paint her portrait. 

Ai-Da Robot is an artificial intelligence robot that creates drawings, paintings, and sculptures. Through cameras and computer memory, she is able to leverage a variety of unique algorithms to make an artistic representation of abstract images. Then, Ai-Da’s robotic arm turns its digital formations into physical drawings and paintings.

The robot’s portrait, Algorithmic Queen, was designed to reflect the different aspects of technological change that have taken place during Queen Elizabeth’s 70-year reign.

Ai-Da has the appearance of a woman and is named after 18th-century mathematician and scientist Ada Lovelace.

She is also able to have a conversation using a specially designed language model. During the unveiling of the painting, she spoke to the press, and thanked Her Majesty for “her dedication” and “the service she gives to so many people”. 

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