The Deep Learning Group at Microsoft recently developed an AI that draws pictures based on text input. Designers: the future is almost here.<\/b>
\nMicrosoft has developed an AI to draw entirely original images based on nothing more than text. You type it, a computer draws it, and we\u2019re one step closer to a world where using software like Photoshop and Illustrator is a hands-off experience.
Researchers created a text-to-image bot that spits out pretty amazing images when fed a series of descriptive words like \u201cthis bird is red with white and has a very short beak.\u201d This was accomplished through the creation of neural network called an Attentional Generative Adversarial Network (AttnGAN) that creates the image pixel-by-pixel. Like any other artist or designer, it does both broad strokes and fine details in layers. neural network
The Deep Learning Group at the Redmond company created this as part of a trilogy of AI projects that include one called Caption Bot, which provides text descriptions for images and another which provides audio answers to questions about images. Each was developed to provide useful applications which combine both computer vision and natural language processing. Caption Bot answers to questions about images
The idea with all three is to teach machines how to understand humans and the world the same way we do. The researchers are trying to fix the \u201c this robot thinks a turtle is a rifle \u201d problem, and it looks like they\u2019re succeeding. this robot thinks a turtle is a rifle
Xiaodong He, an AI research manager with the group, said in a Microsoft blog post: Microsoft blog post
If you go to Bing and you search for a bird, you get a bird picture. But here, the pictures are created by the computer, pixel by pixel, from scratch. These birds may not exist in the real world \u2014 they are just an aspect of our computer\u2019s imagination of birds.
That\u2019s quite beautiful, actually. But, AI doesn\u2019t exactly have imagination \u2013 in no sense is this AI capable of inspiration \u2013 yet it does present another exhibit for the philosophical arguments to come.
Perhaps the more enticing potential application for this, aside from fine art and faking photography, is in the design industry. Imagine lying on your couch with your fingers laced behind your head while you conjure user interfaces or model specifications in your mind\u2019s eye. And then telling your virtual assistant to draw them for you with a simple voice command.
We\u2019re not quite there yet though. And some of those pictures are fugly \u2014 the Salvador Dali-inspired melting stop signs are a bit unsettling. Still, it\u2019s amazing to think we\u2019re on the cusp of a world where, potentially, designers will rely solely on human imagination and artificial intelligence \u2014 not computer skills and software training.
Better yet: here\u2019s hoping the Microsoft does the smart thing and makes this the next version of the beloved Paint . beloved Paint Creative Microsoft
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