Ai-Da: art or illusion?
‘Ai-Da: Portrait of the Robot’ is a small but intriguing exhibition at the Design Museum in London, featuring Ai-Da, the self-proclaimed ‘world’s first ultra-realistic artificial intelligence robot artist’.
She is appropriately named after the English mathematician Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), who published the first algorithm for use with Charles Babbage’s Analaytical Engine, one of the earliest mechanical forms of the computer.