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I tried it:
This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways.
There was a paper recently where a research team trained a machine learning algorithm (a GAN they called AttnGAN) to generate pictures based on written descriptions. It’s like Visual Chatbot in reverse. When it was just trained to generate pictures of birds, it did pretty well, actually.
(Although the description didn’t specify a beak and so it just… left it out.)
But when they trained the same algorithm on a huge and highly varied dataset, it had a lot more trouble generating a picture to go with that caption. Below, I give the same caption to a version of their algorithm that has been trained to generate everything from sheep to shopping centers. Cris Valenzuela wrapped their trained model in an entertaining demo that attempts to generate a picture for any caption.
This bird is less, um, recognizable. When the GAN has to draw *anything* I ask for, there’s just too much to keep track of - the problem’s too broad, and the algorithm spreads itself too thin. It doesn’t just have trouble with birds. A GAN that’s been trained just on celebrity faces will tend to produce photorealistic portraits. But this one, however…
In fact, it does a horrifying job with humans because it can never quite seem to get the number of orifices correct.
It’s fun to ask it to draw animals though. It knows the texture of giraffes, but not quite exactly their shape. And it knows that boats are on the water, but not necessarily that they are boats.
It also (like many other image recognition algorithms) gets a bit confused about the difference between sheep and the landscapes they’re found on. Other algorithms recognize sheep in pictures of empty green fields. And this one, when asked to draw sheep…
That’s different, though, from asking it to draw *a* sheep. In that case, it knows exactly what to do. It draws the sheep, and then just to be safe it fills the entire planet with wool too.
It really likes drawing stop signs and clocks. Give it the slightest opportunity to draw one, and it will chuck those things all over the place.
Other than its horrifying humans, this algorithm can actually be pretty delightful.
Try it for yourself!
I had way too much fun generating these and ended up with way more than would fit in this one blog post. I’ve compiled a few more of my favorites. Enter your email and I’ll send you them (and if you want, you can get bonus material each time I post).
first commission ever (and first artwork that got anywhere past a sort of quick sketch phase in maybe 6 years?) for @trashpatchdolphins (at some point to be transformed into an embroidered patch, of course)
well, um, actually
it had the name of a beach on the back, but that really doesn’t make it much better.
I’m 100% genuinely confused about what this blog is really about but I’m enjoying what I see. Just thought I’d share.
Thanks! That’s fine, i’m pretty confused about what it’s about myself, but when i try to get it to make sense i don’t get anything done. So it kinda does what it wants.
on the way to Pawnhub
is it a challenge? a mating ritual?
i was innocently modeling the pawn pieces for chess game jam and then this happened
hm, Skimmer’s saxophone playing skeleton needed their own post
So, uh ... i had to see what #he wants to play saxophone before he dissolves could look like
oh hey
any relation?
work in progress
a sloppy photogrammetry christmas
a sloppy photogrammetry christmas to you
sloppy dinosaur photogrammetry
We made another little game this weekend for Ludum Dare 40. Its about avoiding babies that want to cling to you, draining your energy. Play it here!
As usual we couldn’t get everything we wanted done in time, but still it became a functional little nightmare, reflecting some of our ideas of parenthood. @sloppydemon is responsible for the extra wiggly babies!
sloppy demon getting carried away
giving the old 3d scan of the sloppy demon an upgrade and getting carried away
