Posted on 07/23/2019 10:02:57 AM PDT by 3161J410
The tool lets users upload their photos, then view a classical-style faux watercolor, oil, or ink portrait based on the photo a few seconds later. Each one is unique. The tool’s creators at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab used generative adversarial network (GAN) models, a popular AI technique. It involves getting two neural networks to duel each other to produce an acceptable outcome: a generator, which looks at examples and tries to mimic them, and a discriminator, which judges if they are real by comparing them with the same training examples. In this case, they used 45,000 portrait images to train the program, including paintings by Titian, van Gogh, and Rembrandt.
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This is racist, right?
This is racist, right?
Interesting.
Hello, Dali!...................
“...the researchers have promised the pictures are immediately deleted after processing by their servers, and they won’t be used for any other purpose.”
From MIT, the home of Jonathan Gruber. Just sayin’.
Site is down already.
Goodbye, Dali!....................
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