Following on from the direction I was exploring last week, I was quite intrigued about the possibility of collaboration in illustration and how AI could be collaborated with to create different results.
I came across this recent project by Nvidia called GauGAN – A program which turns basic drawings into photorealistic images.
The program uses a technology of AI called GANs – Generative Adversarial Networks. In short this involves two AI networks competing against each other to create something as close to realism as possible. One tries to create a realistic image, and the other identifies whether the result is real or fake.
The networks learn from each other – one becomes better at identifying fakes, while the other becomes better at creating fakes.
“You can think of this being like a competition between counterfeiters and police,” Ian Goodfellow said. “Counterfeiters want to make fake money and have it look real, and police want to look at any particular bill and determine if it’s fake.” – Jamie Beckett
VCD 453 - Jason Fastier 