{"id":120910,"date":"2021-03-26T09:23:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T16:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/sophia-the-robot-self-portrait-nft-sells-for-almost-700k"},"modified":"2021-03-26T09:23:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T16:23:48","slug":"sophia-the-robot-self-portrait-nft-sells-for-almost-700k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/sophia-the-robot-self-portrait-nft-sells-for-almost-700k","title":{"rendered":"Sophia the Robot \u2018self-portrait\u2019 NFT sells for almost $700K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sophia-the-robot-self-portrait-nft-sells-for-almost-700k2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A \u201cself-portrait\u201d by humanoid robot Sophia, who \u201cinterpreted\u201d a depiction of her own face, has sold at auction for over $688000.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A hand-painted \u201cself-portrait\u201d by the world-famous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/style\/article\/sophia-robot-artificial-intelligence-smart-creativity\/index.html?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_att\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">humanoid robot, Sophia<\/a>, has sold at auction for over $688000.<\/p>\n<p>The work, which saw Sophia \u201cinterpret\u201d a depiction of her own face, was offered as a non-fungible token, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/style\/article\/nft-digital-art-boom\/index.html?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_att\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">or NFT<\/a>, an encrypted digital signature that has revolutionized the art market in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>Titled \u201cSophia Instantiation,\u201d the image was created in collaboration with Andrea Bonaceto, an artist and partner at blockchain investment firm Eterna Capital. Bonaceto began the process by producing a brightly colored portrait of Sophia, which was processed by the robot\u2019s neural networks. Sophia then painted an interpretation of the image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u201cself-portrait\u201d by humanoid robot Sophia, who \u201cinterpreted\u201d a depiction of her own face, has sold at auction for over $688000. A hand-painted \u201cself-portrait\u201d by the world-famous humanoid robot, Sophia, has sold at auction for over $688000. The work, which saw Sophia \u201cinterpret\u201d a depiction of her own face, was offered as a non-fungible token, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1625,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-encryption","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}