Ai-Da paints headliners at Glastonbury

Ai-Da Robot, the world’s first ultra- realistic humanoid robot artist, has revealed four new paintings of this year’s Glastonbury Festival headliners Diana Ross, Kendrick Lama, Billie Eilish and Paul McCartney, ahead of Ai-Da Robot appearing at Glastonbury as an artist in the festival’s famous Shangri-La field.

Ai-Da gave live demonstrations of her painting skills at the 50th anniversary of the festival, with two sessions a day in the Shangri La field. Festival goers were able to watch live as Ai-Da Robot painted portraits of artists in real time.

Ai-Da uses cameras in her eyes and her inbuilt computer vision to paint her portraits. She uses a variety of her unique Artificial Intelligent algorithms to interpret what she sees.

Ai-Da Robot, who is able to converse using a specially designed AI language model, said: “I’m going to the 50th Glastonbury festival. I’m looking forward to meeting new people and experiencing the unique atmosphere. Well, it's a kind of fun thing for me to do. I’ll be at Shangri-La, and I’m doing some portraits - I hope that my art encourages discussion about art, music, and of course our futures! See you there!”

Ai-Da was at the Shangri-La field within Glastonbury Festival, UK, 23-26th June 2022.

Ai-Da’s portraits of the Glastonbury headliners