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25.10.2018 19:09
(Act 25.10.2018 19:20)
Christie's enters a new territory with the auction
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A work made by an algorithm was auctioned in New York for $ 432,000 (380,000 euros). It was the first work of an artificial intelligence (AI), put under the hammer in a big auction house, Christie said. The selling price was well above the $ 7,000 to $ 10,000 estimated by Christie's for the auction.
Five bidders raised the price for several minutes before an anonymous bidder received the phone call. The blurred print "Edmond de Belamy" shows a man in a dark white-collar hood reminiscent of a French churchman of the 17th or 18th century. Christie's called the auction "KI's arrival on the world auction stage".
Behind the work is the Paris collective Avoid, which had already sold in February a work from its Belamy series to collector Nicolas Laugero Lbaderre for 10,000 euros. The series of 15,000 real portraits, which appeared between the 14th and the 20th century, formed the basis of the work sold at auction. On the basis of this, the algorithm has generated images until a competing part of the algorithm considers that one of them is artificial.
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