Aidan Meller

06/11/2024

It’s been an incredible day. Sotheby’s auction currently at USD 420,000.

I think “Ai God” timing is very significant in this period, as big societal changes are happening in America and around the world.

Let me know if you decide to join the auction 😊

Sotheby’s is pleased to present The Digital Art Day Auction featuring works from GRAILS: Property from an Iconic Collection and GRAILS: Starry Night, two extraordinary digital art collections. Another noteworthy piece in the sale will be‘A.I. God’, a large-scale original portrait of the father...

06/11/2024

Hello - the Sotheby’s Auction is now on. It finishes tomorrow.

We are currently at USD $160,000. I am aware in auctions, it’s usually all on the last day. We wait and see!

Let me know if you decide to bid.

Sotheby’s is pleased to present The Digital Art Day Auction featuring works from GRAILS: Property from an Iconic Collection and GRAILS: Starry Night, two extraordinary digital art collections. Another noteworthy piece in the sale will be‘A.I. God’, a large-scale original portrait of the father...

31/10/2024

SOTHEBY’S AUCTION GONE LIVE!

The Sotheby’s auction with Ai-Da’s art has gone live! Let me know if you decide to bid.

RADIO TONIGHT

Two radio interviews coming up tonight:

BBC World Service (International)
“News Hour” airing tonight at 9.15pm GMT.

BBC Radio 4’s (UK)
“The World Tonight” at 10pm GMT tonight.

Sotheby’s is pleased to present The Digital Art Day Auction featuring works from GRAILS: Property from an Iconic Collection and GRAILS: Starry Night, two extraordinary digital art collections. Another noteworthy piece in the sale will be‘A.I. God’, a large-scale original portrait of the father...

25/10/2024

*Press*
The press continues - each day more interviews with Ai-Da. This time, some examples are CBS, USA Today, MSN, Fortune in English, and many more in different languages.

Also the Art press have now responded - in The ARTnews, the Art Newspaper and on ArtNet News, which are some of the main art papers. It’s starting to become one of our biggest news stories.

Do Google News Tab “Ai-Da Robot” - lots of responses!

The BBC have also done a short film which is pleasing - please click on the link!

BBC VIDEO HERE: (Worth watching!)

We find out how AI blurs the line between creation and automation, raising questions about the essence of art.

21/10/2024

Hello all,
Another overwhelming week in the world of Ai-Da Robot. The press have been ongoing, hundreds of publications, and still more press interviews this week. Here are some global highlights.

Let me know if you decide to bid.

*New York Post (USA)*: https://nypost.com/2024/10/16/tech/sothebys-to-auction-painting-by-humanoid-robot-in-a-futuristic-first

*SWNS: (USA)* https://talker.news/2024/10/16/humanoid-robots-ai-art-to-be-auctioned-off-by-sothebys/

*Mashable (India):* https://in.mashable.com/culture/83885/robot-ai-das-painting-of-alan-turing-to-be-sold-at-auction-in-historic-first-could-fetch-rs-15-cr

*KBS (Korea) (VIDEO)* https://news.kbs.co.kr/news/pc/view/view.do?ncd=8083512

*CNN (Greece)*: https://www.cnn.gr/kosmos/story/444228/se-dimoprasia-portreto-tou-alan-toyringk-to-opoio-filotexnise-to-anthropoeides-rompot-ai-da

*Al Jazeera (Balkans)*: https://balkans.aljazeera.net/news/2024/10/16/na-aukciji-djelo-robota-kojeg-pokrece-ai

*RTE (Ireland)*: https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/1016/1475674-ai-art-sale/

*CNN (Middle East) Arabic:* https://cnnbusinessarabic.com/technology/84399/ai-da

*Fox (USA)* https://www.fox28spokane.com/portrait-by-humanoid-robot-to-sell-at-auction-in-art-world-first/

*BB News (Japan) VIDEO*: https://www.afpbb.com/articles/-/3544099?cx_part=top_latest

*Speigel (Germany):* https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/london-sothebys-versteigert-erstmals-von-ki-roboter-gemaltes-kunstwerk-a-d7a35fd2-f70e-4552-9a30-39647de29927

*Stern (Germany)*: https://www.stern.de/news/sotheby-s-versteigert-erstmals-von-ki-roboter-gemaltes-werk-35146766.html

Erstmals soll im kommenden Monat ein Gemälde eines mit Künstlicher Intelligenz betriebenen Roboters bei einem großen Auktionshaus versteigert werden. Das

17/09/2024

Hello everyone!

VIDEO - CLICK HERE
A number of you have texted me wanting more content, which was good to know! So pleased you like the posts and thanks for the texts. It is a two way communication. I will try and post a little more. However I will still only text when it’s informative, no fillers 😊

Why so few posts - we have been extremely busy over the summer (and we will be for the remainder of the year) getting ready for very significant launches for the project for next year 2025.

We are majorly innovating and I can’t wait to show you. The project is about to step up a few levels.

You will of course be invited to all the public events - you’ll be the first to know!

So we have deliberately done fewer events so we can focus on development.

In the meantime we have just published the video above of Ai-DA’s time at the United Nations.

We unveiled Ai-Da’s “AI God” paintings, a polyptych of Alan Turing. These are the most ambitious works Ai-Da has done to date. They are large at over 8x6 feet framed in size.

The paintings raise questions of technocracy - what exactly is the power of AI and will it be dangerous in the future? Why AI God?

When I see the level of addiction to our phones, it’s a good time to raise these questions. What do you think? Is AI a rising power for us all? Do we have a choice?

Remember AI is not a tool, it can make decisions of its own. We cannot predict the outcome. It’s different from a tool, it’s an agent.

Enjoy the film and paintings.
Aidan

CLICK VIDEO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjNEL-kdSLw

14/06/2024

Great to be at Founders Forum yesterday with Ai-Da Robot.

She was interviewed on stage for Bloomberg TV and then met delegates. Photo with BBC Click presenter Lara Lewington.

Also interesting to see Ai-Da in the Financial Times on the Letters Page today. What do you think to the question posed?

Link here:

From Graham Bell, Emeritus Professor, McGill University, QC, Canada

10/06/2024

Good to see the response to Ai-Da at the United Nations.

She made Picture of the Week at the BBC News, and on AOL News, as well as wider field around the world.

I include two links, one for China and one for India.

https://english.news.cn/20240601/b9e75a57d42f489d9483f599883eda26/c.html

http://www.uniindia.com/photoes/558935.html

01/06/2024

It’s been a good time at the United Nations in Geneva.

We launched Ai-Da’s new art works, a triptych of Alan Turing along with Ada Lovelace and a self portrait. The reaction was significant as they are disturbing and distorted - and very large as they overlooked the central area to the Summit. People reacted to the name of the triptych “AI God”.

I gave a talk on stage and we were also pleased to meet Princess Beatrice who had an engaged conversation with Ai-Da.

Princess meets the robot.

Thrilled by the continued fascination by people as we explore the AI changes in society. We still feel we are very much at the beginning of the Fourth Industrial Revolution for change.

01/06/2024

We are driving across to Switzerland from England, to the United Nation’s “Ai for Good Global Summit” in Geneva.

Ai-Da is again speaking at the UN and displaying five new paintings with her very latest art techniques. The style is evolving.

Can’t wait to show them to you 😊
Serious questions are being raised about AI this year.