Sotheby's said the sale puts the artwork among those of famed artists past and present, and marks a shift where machines are now part of the creative process.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your In

“AI God,” is a painting that depicts famed cryptanalyst Alan Turing, and it was created by Ai-Da, who is described on her website as being an “ultra-realistic robot artist.” The work, which was sold at Sotheby’s auction house in New York for over a million dollars this week, looks like this:

The portrait depicts the British mathematician Alan Turing as the god of artificial intelligence. Its creator is a robot named Ai-Da that resembles a woman with a bob haircut.

Ai-da, punningly named after mathematician Ada Lovelace, is described by its creators as the "first ultra-realistic humanoid robot artist." The robot has created a series of paintings called "AI God." A portrait of computing pioneer Alan Turing created by Ai-da was estimated to sell at a Sotheby's auction for $120,