The end result of following the computer’s instructions is a greyscale portrait. Where few black strings overlap, it’s light, and where more overlap, it’s darker. That’s the whole gimmick ...

A portrait printed as text. Computer portraits emerged in the 1970s when software was created to turn a photo into text characters. Typically promoted by vendors at carnivals and fairs ...

is described as a "haunting" portrait of the English mathematician Alan Turing, considered one of the fathers of modern computing. Entitled "AI God", the 2.2 metre (7.5 ft) high portrait is ...

Her Turing portrait “with muted tones and broken ... Turing, a code-breaking legend and early computer scientist, had foreseen both AI’s promise and its potential perils.