Crouching Beggar, Hidden Painting: How Oxia Palus used AI to recreate a lost Picasso painting.
Generative Modeling

Crouching Beggar, Hidden Painting: How Oxia Palus used AI to recreate a lost Picasso painting.

Neural networks for image generation don’t just create new art — they can help recreate works that have been lost for ages. Oxia Palus, a UK startup dedicated to resurrecting lost art through AI.

April 21, 20212 min read
Crouching Beggar, Hidden Painting: How Oxia Palus used AI to recreate a lost Picasso painting.
Generative Modeling

Crouching Beggar, Hidden Painting: How Oxia Palus used AI to recreate a lost Picasso painting.

Neural networks for image generation don’t just create new art — they can help recreate works that have been lost for ages. Oxia Palus, a UK startup dedicated to resurrecting lost art through AI.

April 21, 20212 min read
Large Language Models for Chinese: A brief overview of the WuDao family
Generative Modeling

Large Language Models for Chinese: A brief overview of the WuDao family

Researchers unveiled competition for the reigning large language model GPT-3. Four models collectively called Wu Dao were described by Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, a research collective funded by the Chinese government, according to Synced Review.

April 14, 20212 min read
Image Generation Transformed: New research combines GANs with transformers.
Generative Modeling

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
Motion Mapper: An AI system for automated animations for video game sprites
Generative Modeling

Motion Mapper: An AI system for automated animations for video game sprites

In some animated games, different characters can perform the same actions — say, walking, jumping, or casting spells. A new system learned from unlabeled data to transfer such motions from one character to another.

April 14, 20212 min read
Motion Mapper: An AI system for automated animations for video game sprites
Generative Modeling

Motion Mapper: An AI system for automated animations for video game sprites

In some animated games, different characters can perform the same actions — say, walking, jumping, or casting spells. A new system learned from unlabeled data to transfer such motions from one character to another.

April 14, 20212 min read
Image Generation Transformed: New research combines GANs with transformers.
Generative Modeling

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
Large Language Models for Chinese: A brief overview of the WuDao family
Generative Modeling

Large Language Models for Chinese: A brief overview of the WuDao family

Researchers unveiled competition for the reigning large language model GPT-3. Four models collectively called Wu Dao were described by Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, a research collective funded by the Chinese government, according to Synced Review.

April 14, 20212 min read
Attention for Image Generation: Combining GANs and transformers for more believable images.
Generative Modeling

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 Modeling

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
New Life for Old Songs: Audio demixing algorithms are pulling voices and instruments from music recordings.
Generative Modeling

New Life for Old Songs: Audio demixing algorithms are pulling voices and instruments from music recordings.

Neural networks can tease apart the different sounds in musical. Companies and hobbyists are using deep learning to separate voices and instruments in commercial recordings, Wired reported.

April 7, 20211 min read
New Life for Old Songs: Audio demixing algorithms are pulling voices and instruments from music recordings.
Generative Modeling

New Life for Old Songs: Audio demixing algorithms are pulling voices and instruments from music recordings.

Neural networks can tease apart the different sounds in musical. Companies and hobbyists are using deep learning to separate voices and instruments in commercial recordings, Wired reported.

April 7, 20211 min read
Star Trek, The Videobot Generation: William Shatner creates his own deepfake.
Generative Modeling

Star Trek, The Videobot Generation: William Shatner creates his own deepfake.

A digital doppelgänger of Star Trek’s original star will let fans chat with him — possibly well beyond his lifetime. AI startup StoryFile built a lifelike videobot of actor William Shatner, best known for playing Captain James T. Kirk on Star Trek.

March 31, 20211 min read
Pictures From Words and Gestures: AI model generates captions as users mouse over images.
Generative Modeling

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 Modeling

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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