With a team of humans involved in supporting Ai-Da, it may be the 21st century’s iteration of the great masters’ Renaissance studios, says Rebecca Keating
Your article on the robot artist Ai-Da’s portrait of the Queen raised some interesting questions on AI’s ability to produce art (But is it art, Ma’am? Robot’s platinum jubilee Queen portrait unveiled, 27 May).
Jonathan Jones, the Guardian’s art critic, argues that Ai-Da fails the Turing test, which requires that a human being should be unable to distinguish output produced by a machine from that of another human being.
