Artificial intelligence has mastered painting

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Artificial intelligence has mastered painting

 

A smartphone app called Prisma has been taking 10 post-Soviet nations by storm, reaching the No. 1 spot in app stores in record time.

 

At first glance, the software does nothing special: It's a collection of image filters that make photos look like paintings.

 

But the technology is far more complex and troubling: It uses artificial intelligence to completely "repaint" images in any of 20 preset manners, taking a major step toward making painting technique even more irrelevant than it has already been rendered by contemporary art.

 

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Prisma is altogether more clever.

 

It's a consumer implementation of techniques  that use so-called convolutional neural networks - a type of artificial intelligence that, when "trained" on a series of images, can "learn" certain stylistic features and apply them to a different image - say, a photograph.

 

Until last year, only humans could separate style and technique from content in a painting.

 

The algorithms do not apply filters to a photo - they only use its content as guidance for new images produced with the features "learned" from Picasso, Van Gogh or Munch.

 

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Get Prisma @ iTunes

 

http://prisma-ai.com/

 

A version for Android is coming next month.

 

[FiB3R]

Sounds good, but the results still look like digital filters applied to photographs.

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24 minutes ago, FiB3R said:

Sounds good, but the results still look like digital filters applied to photographs.

Those are not the best examples, I agree  

 

Still, it's quiet impressive and I'm gonna add links for download now.

[JustGeorge]

Cat be like "Duh Fu.....?!"

 

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Prisma is now out on Android!

 

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Turn Every Photo into Art Using Artificial Intelligence

 

Prisma transforms your photos into works of art using the styles of famous artists: Van Gogh, Picasso, Levitan, as well as world famous ornaments and patterns. A unique combination of neural networks and artificial intelligence helps you turn memorable moments into timeless art pieces.

 

 

[Yogurth]

Looking at the results, I can't see how is this better or different from PC applications or Photoshop plugins that have been doing this for more that a decade?

[madd-hatter]

Artificial intelligence has mastered painting

 

Humans continue to improve their programming skills.

 

FTFY.

[exotoxic]

I was expecting a robotic arm with a paint brush.

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Van Gogh would cut off his other ear.

[Tuskd]

The effort to make such a thing is appreciable, but based on the photos I have seen, it is not even remotely comparable to any kind of a human painting style. To me, its an app that divides a photo into a number of polygons and adds a different colour & texture to each one.

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I like this app for two reasons:

 

1) it can turn a really bad, ugly, or an out-of-focus photo into a gem;

2) its potential for creativity (post-processing).

 

After I had installed the app for the first time, I spent almost an hour playing and experimenting with it by loading a bunch of old photos into my phone and applying different styles to them.