Microsoft’s New AI Can Create Drawings From Your Text Descriptions

Jan. 19, 2018

Microsoft has recently been in the news lately for a lot of reasons, may it be the forending the support for Windows 8.1or addingnew revenue earning methods for developers. One thing that Microsoft hasn’t really been successfully lately though, is its artificial intelligence branch.Microsoft’s Cortanahas failed to become the first choice of voice assistant for many users, and withAlexa making its way to Windows PCs, Cortana might just lose even bigger. But it seems as if Microsoft has bigger plans, as is evident by the recent advancements in their AI.

For instance, Microsoft showed offthe AI create an image of a bird using the input parameters – “yellow bird with black wings and a short beak”. As you can see from the image above, the AI identifies each word, imagines what it would look like, and then effectively constructs an image ofthe suggested bird. “These birds may not exist in the real world — they are just an aspect of our computer’s imagination of birds.” said principal researcher Xiaodong He in a statement.

This current AI technology consists of two parts: The Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)which generates the images,and The Discriminator, that judges the quality of the images generated. As per reports, the drawing bot was trained using Microsoft’s previous projects, namelyCaptionBotandSeeingAI, which teach the AI to learn what words go with which images.

While Microsoft’s newAI technologyis currently not in the perfect form, theteam envisions the product to come quite handy for designers and artists.It could also be used as a tool to refine photos based on voice input. The researchers behind the project also hope for a future where animated movies could be generated by the AI.

Considering that the AI is still under testing, there is no word as to when – if even –  the technology will be released for public testing. That being said, we are excited about knowing the capabilities of Microsoft’s latest development. But what about you? Share with us your thoughts about the same in the comments down below.

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