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Zi Wang

A robot painter will make the case for AI art before the House of Lords this week

Ai-Da, the world's first realistic robot 'artist', is named after Ada Lovelace

(Picture: David Parry/PA Wire)

A human-looking robot painter that composed a painting of the late Queen Elizabeth II will appear in front of the House of Lords this week, to give a speech and address AI’s growing threat to the UK’s creative industries.

The robot, named Ai-Da after mathematician Ada Lovelace, will speak to the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee, as part of an inquiry into the future of the arts in the country.

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