At the core of Microsoft’s drawing bot is a technology known as a generative adversarial network, or GAN. Photo: iStockphotoWashington: Microsoft researchers are developing an artificial intelligence (AI) enabled ‘drawing bot’ that can create images from text descriptions of an object. Each image contains details that are absent from the text descriptions, indicating that this artificial intelligence contains an artificial imagination, it said. But here, the pictures are created by the computer, pixel by pixel, from scratch,” said Xiaodong He, a principal researcher at Microsoft’s research lab in Washington. At the core of Microsoft’s drawing bot is a technology known as a generative adversarial network, or GAN.

Source: Mint January 19, 2018 08:03 UTC