A painting of famed Second World War codebreaker Alan Turing created by an AI robot has sold at auction for a record $1.3 million (£1 million).

Sotherby’s said there were 27 bids for the digital art sale of “AI God”, which was originally estimated to sell for between $120,000 (£9,252) and $180,000 (£139,000).

Mathematician Turing was a pioneer of computer science and known as the father of artificial intelligence (AI).

The auction house said the historic sale “initiated a new frontier in the global art market by establishing the auction benchmark for a work of art made by a humanoid robot.”