An artwork created by Paris-based art collective Obvious using artificial intelligence has been sold at Christie's auction house in New York for nearly half a million dollars.
The AI painting, titled Portrait of Edmond de Belamy, sold for for $432,000 (£337,000) ? more than 40 times the estimated selling price of $7,000 to $10,000. Christie's became the first auction house to put an artwork generated by an algorithm under the hammer, when the abstract portrait was sold by the company's New York branch.
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