‘Paint Me a Picture’: NVIDIA Research Shows GauGAN AI Art Demo Now Responds to Words

GauGAN2 uses a deep learning model that turns a simple written phrase, or sentence, into a photorealistic masterpiece.

A picture worth a thousand words now takes just three or four words to create, thanks to GauGAN2, the latest version of NVIDIA Research’s wildly popular AI painting demo.

The deep learning model behind GauGAN allows anyone to channel their imagination into photorealistic masterpieces — and it’s easier than ever. Simply type a phrase like “sunset at a beach” and AI generates the scene in real time. Add an additional adjective like “sunset at a rocky beach,” or swap “sunset” to “afternoon” or “rainy day” and the model, based on generative adversarial networks, instantly modifies the picture.

With the press of a button, users can generate a segmentation map, a high-level outline that shows the location of objects in the scene. From there, they can switch to drawing, tweaking the scene with rough sketches using labels like sky, tree, rock and river, allowing the smart paintbrush to incorporate these doodles into stunning images. Read More

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Jeffrey Ding on China’s AI Dream, the AI ‘Arms Race’, and AI as a General Purpose Technology

An interview with Jeffrey Ding, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, who researches implications of advances in AI for a possible U.S.-China power transit

Review on Apple Podcasts: Jeffrey Ding (@jjding99) is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, sponsored by Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, as well as a research affiliate with the Centre for the Governance of AI at the University of Oxford. His current research is centered on how technological change affects the rise and fall of great powers, with an eye toward the implications of advances in AI for a possible U.S.-China power transition. Read More

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China’s Race for AI Supremacy

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