November 18, 2020 10:31 am
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2020/11/18/21572884/google-ai-tool-gan-chimera-painter-machine-learning-monsters
Googles latest AI tool turns your MS Paint doodles into freakish monsters
To quote Google CEO Sundar Pichai: AI is “more profound than fire or electricity.”
To back up this claim with incontrovertible evidence: here’s an AI tool made by Google researchers that turns doodles into weird monsters. What could be more profound?
It’s certainly fun, anyway. The tool is called Chimera Painter and uses machine learning to generate imagery based on users’ rough sketches. This sort of dynamic is becoming a relatively common one in machine learning. Nvidia has done it with landscapes before; MIT and IBM did it with buildings; and now Google is ... doing it with monsters.
The team behind Chimera Painter explained their methods and motivations in a blog post, saying the idea was to create a “paintbrush that acted less like...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2020/11/18/21572884/google-ai-tool-gan-chimera-painter-machine-learning-monsters
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