at 432,500 $ – so the equivalent of 380.500 Euro: This is the price the painting “Edmond de Belamy” has made on Thursday evening at an auction at Christie’s auction house in New York. Although it is far from the most expensive paintings in the world – by 2017, the image of “Salvator Mundi” of Leonardo was auctioned off da Vinci at Christie’s for the staggering sum of 450 million dollars – still, it is a record. Because “Edmond de Belamy” was not created by man, but by an algorithm.

The blurry-looking and the gold-framed picture shows a black man dressed in a cowl. At first glance, it could be from the 18th century. or 19. Century. The painting was created by means of artificial intelligence. The artist Pierre Fautrel a fed initially 15,000 of classical portraits in a computer system. Generated by the Computer with the help of an algorithm itself, a number of new images, including Casinoslot the now auction image.

“Bares für Rares XXL” “Up to 100,000 euros”: This painting is a Sensation – were it not for a crucial shortcoming of the estimated price was only $ 7,000

“the arrival of KI on the world’s auction stage,” had Christie advertised in the auction. The estimated price of the “Edmond de Belamy” was between 7000 and 10,000 dollars. It is now for the 61-times left, was a Surprise. Five bidders drove the price minutes before an anonymous bidder got on the phone with the contract. It is the most expensive painting that was created by an Artificial intelligence.

As a signature not of the artist Fautrel is specified. Instead of the painting: “min G max D Ex[log(D(x))]+Ez[log(1-D(G(z)))] is in the lower right corner”. This is the algorithm that created the work. The Name of the picture “Edmond de Belamy” is a tribute to the American AI researchers Ian Goodfellow. Whose surname can be translated in French with “bel ami” – a good friend.

Eleven prints from the series exist

in the Meantime, there are eleven prints of this kind, all of which were created by an Artificial intelligence. One of them moved in February to the owner. Art collector Nicolas Laugero Lasserre paid only 10,000 euros.

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