The world’s most famous humanoid robot just sold its first artwork, created in collaboration with a human artist.
Sophia the robot might still not be self-aware, but she can do many things. Apart from being interviewed by Angela Merkel, performing a duet with Jimmy Fallon on “The Tonight Show,” or showing up at NYFW, or addressing NATO, who thought that Sophia could paint? It turns out that she can.
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In collaboration with digital artist and partner at Eterna Capital (a blockchain investment firm), Andrea Bonaceto, Sophia painted a self-portrait based on Bonaceto’s initial portrait of her.
The painting was then turned into an NFT (non-fungible token) and auctioned off to the highest bidder.
The NFT, which sold on Crypto art platform Nifty Gateway for $688,888, is possibly the first artwork created (at least in part) by an AI, with SingularityNET describing it as “the world’s first humanoid robot #AI generated #NFT.” The buyer is a mysterious digital artist, 888.
The sale includes “Sophia Instantiation,” a 12-second video file showing how the artwork was created, and a physical artwork painted by Sophia.
Other notable NFT sales include a JPG created by digital Mike Winkelmann (aka Beeple), auctioned off by Christie’s earlier this month for almost $70 million, and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s first tweet which sold as an NFT for close to $3 million.
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