Artistry Is Obsolete: Is AI Making Human Artists Obsolete?
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

Artistry Is Obsolete: Is AI Making Human Artists Obsolete?

Is human creativity being replaced by the synthetic equivalent? The fear: AI is cranking out increasingly sophisticated visual, musical, and literary works. AI-generated media will flood the market, squeezing out human artists and depriving the world of their creativity.

October 27, 20212 min read
Roll Over, Beethoven: AI Completes Beethoven's 10th Symphony
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

Roll Over, Beethoven: AI Completes Beethoven's 10th Symphony

Ludwig van Beethoven died before he completed what would have been his tenth and final symphony. A team of computer scientists and music scholars approximated the music that might have been.

October 13, 20212 min read
Roll Over, Beethoven: AI Completes Beethoven's 10th Symphony
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

Roll Over, Beethoven: AI Completes Beethoven's 10th Symphony

Ludwig van Beethoven died before he completed what would have been his tenth and final symphony. A team of computer scientists and music scholars approximated the music that might have been.

October 13, 20212 min read
AI With a Sense of Style: Style Transfer Method Produces Consistent Output in Successive Video Frames
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

AI With a Sense of Style: Style Transfer Method Produces Consistent Output in Successive Video Frames

The process known as image-to-image style transfer — mapping, say, the character of a painting’s brushstrokes onto a photo — can render inconsistent results. When they apply the styles of different artists to the same target

September 22, 20213 min read
AI With a Sense of Style: Style Transfer Method Produces Consistent Output in Successive Video Frames
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

AI With a Sense of Style: Style Transfer Method Produces Consistent Output in Successive Video Frames

The process known as image-to-image style transfer — mapping, say, the character of a painting’s brushstrokes onto a photo — can render inconsistent results. When they apply the styles of different artists to the same target

September 22, 20213 min read
Solve RL With This One Weird Trick: How to get better performance from reinforcement learning.
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

Solve RL With This One Weird Trick: How to get better performance from reinforcement learning.

The previous state-of-the-art model for playing vintage Atari games took advantage of a number of advances in reinforcement learning (RL). The new champion is a basic RL architecture plus a trick borrowed from image generation.

August 18, 20212 min read
Solve RL With This One Weird Trick: How to get better performance from reinforcement learning.
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

Solve RL With This One Weird Trick: How to get better performance from reinforcement learning.

The previous state-of-the-art model for playing vintage Atari games took advantage of a number of advances in reinforcement learning (RL). The new champion is a basic RL architecture plus a trick borrowed from image generation.

August 18, 20212 min read
CLIP Art: Creating AI art by pairing CLIP with GAN models
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

CLIP Art: Creating AI art by pairing CLIP with GAN models

Creative engineers are combining deep learning systems to produce a groundswell of generated imagery. Researchers, hackers, and artists are producing new works by pairing CLIP, a pretrained image classifier, with a generative adversarial network (GAN).

July 14, 20211 min read
CLIP Art: Creating AI art by pairing CLIP with GAN models
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

CLIP Art: Creating AI art by pairing CLIP with GAN models

Creative engineers are combining deep learning systems to produce a groundswell of generated imagery. Researchers, hackers, and artists are producing new works by pairing CLIP, a pretrained image classifier, with a generative adversarial network (GAN).

July 14, 20211 min read
Image Generation Transformed: New research combines GANs with transformers.
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

Image Generation Transformed: New research combines GANs with transformers.

A recent generative adversarial network (GAN) produced more coherent images using modified transformers that replaced fully connected layers with convolutional layers. A new GAN achieved a similar end using transformers in their original form.

April 14, 20212 min read
Image Generation Transformed: New research combines GANs with transformers.
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

Image Generation Transformed: New research combines GANs with transformers.

A recent generative adversarial network (GAN) produced more coherent images using modified transformers that replaced fully connected layers with convolutional layers. A new GAN achieved a similar end using transformers in their original form.

April 14, 20212 min read
Attention for Image Generation: Combining GANs and transformers for more believable images.
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

Attention for Image Generation: Combining GANs and transformers for more believable images.

Attention quantifies how each part of one input affects the various parts of another. Researchers added a step that reverses this comparison to produce more convincing images.

April 7, 20212 min read
Attention for Image Generation: Combining GANs and transformers for more believable images.
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

Attention for Image Generation: Combining GANs and transformers for more believable images.

Attention quantifies how each part of one input affects the various parts of another. Researchers added a step that reverses this comparison to produce more convincing images.

April 7, 20212 min read
Pictures From Words and Gestures: AI model generates captions as users mouse over images.
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

Pictures From Words and Gestures: AI model generates captions as users mouse over images.

A new system combines verbal descriptions and crude lines to visualize complex scenes. Google researchers led by Jing Yu Koh proposed Tag-Retrieve-Compose-Synthesize (TReCS), a system that generates photorealistic images by describing what they want to see while mousing around on a blank screen.

March 31, 20212 min read
Pictures From Words and Gestures: AI model generates captions as users mouse over images.
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

Pictures From Words and Gestures: AI model generates captions as users mouse over images.

A new system combines verbal descriptions and crude lines to visualize complex scenes. Google researchers led by Jing Yu Koh proposed Tag-Retrieve-Compose-Synthesize (TReCS), a system that generates photorealistic images by describing what they want to see while mousing around on a blank screen.

March 31, 20212 min read

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