This AI turns doodles into masterpieces
Oct02
Scientists recently trained an AI to interpret simple doodles and turn them into artistic masterpieces. The researchers, from Cambridge Consultants, trained the machine, named Vincent, with less than 10,000 images using a global adversarial network. Is Vincent an artist? We’d say no. However the AI wasn’t created to produce art, but rather detect counterfeits. And it’s doing this by creating them. Researchers use an adversarial network to train the AI by giving it conflicting goals. In Vincent’s case, to both produce and detect art that could pass for something from the Renaissance period. Vincent is literally its own worst critic. Monty Barlow,…
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