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Algorithm can create new Van Gogh or Picasso in an hour
- lobo_tuerto 11y agoMeanwhile, you can play with this: https://github.com/Lasagne/Recipes/blob/master/examples/styletransfer/Art%20Style%20Transfer.ipynb https://github.com/Lasagne/Recipes/blob/master/examples/styl...
- panic 11y agoThis article has a clickbait headline and no technical details. Here's the actual (pre-print) paper on this technique: http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06576 http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06576
- sctb 11y agoHN discussion of the paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10141516 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10141516
- JohnHammersley 11y agoThanks for both these extra links -- I missed the previous HN discussion (of the paper) due to searching for Van Gogh / Picasso rather than anything else. Whilst I agree the Washington Post article is rather lacking in technical details, it does provide a pretty nice visual idea of what the paper is about, which I think helps (and this comment thread means people can now find the paper very easily too!).
- dang 11y agoAlso https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10157750 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10157750.
- nl 11y agoOf course, the machines don’t have a style all their own. They can only copy existing styles. True creativity is a greater challenge that machines have yet to master. It seems to me that human artists take styles they have seen, blend it with their experiences and create their own style. Blending multiple painting styles is just a tweak in the training....
- skimpycompiler 11y agoWell, that isn't the only thing. I guess what others might complain about is the lack of composition, structured use of color, etc. As much as paintings look similar, generated ones do not have a proper structure, the applied colors do not match the original intent and are often misplaced. One of the obvious flaws is the reflection of the houses in the water, the painting isn't structured and the system isn't capable of discovering that kind of structure. Paper on the other hand shows a very nice method of finding unique filters from given examples, and the results are amazing.
- ZeroFries 11y agoThere's a lot of knowledge required to make a good painting besides just knowledge of other good paintings. I think it would take a long time and a huge neural net to encode those principals without human level intelligence.
- pedalpete 11y agoThis Algorithm doesn't create a Van Gogh or a Picasso, but rather merges an artists style with another. If the algorithm were given two different photographs, what would the result be? This is clearly pointed out in the Gandalf example. Though the resulting image may mimic Picasso's style of line and color, as a whole, it was unable to recreate the randomness and asymmetry of Picasso's style.
- Xcelerate 11y agoWhat's more interesting than the article are the comments below it. The average person isn't commenting on what a cool deep learning breakthrough this is. If AI is ever actually realized, it will occur along with a fit of conniptions about how "fake" it is. Well... at least until people fail to pass a double-blind test distinguishing between human and AI creations.
- vixen99 11y agoYes, we're all fakes to that extent. People who are unconvinced should read Braitenberg's Vehicles (1984).
- qCOVET 11y agoThis was already shared 6 days ago by user midko .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10143929 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10143929
- random_user_20 11y agoI wonder what the output of the inverse would look like.. If it's fed a database of "real world" and run on a Van Gogh.
- Steko 11y agoI wonder which camera app will implement first.