Ai-Da is billed as “one of the most exciting artists of our time”. But Ai-Da differs from generations of past masters in one inescapable way: she is a robot.
Ai-Da is the brainchild of Aidan Meller, who claims she is the world’s first ultra-realistic humanoid artist, able to draw creatively thanks to in-built artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
The 46-year-old art dealer recently unveiled Ai-Da — dressed in a brown wig and period-style painter’s blouse — in Oxford, ahead of an exhibition of her first works opening next week in the English university city. “She is fully algorithmic... fully creative,” Mr. Meller said.
