{"id":75444,"date":"2018-01-20T16:42:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T00:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/microsofts-new-drawing-bot-is-an-ai-artist"},"modified":"2018-01-20T16:42:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T00:42:47","slug":"microsofts-new-drawing-bot-is-an-ai-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/microsofts-new-drawing-bot-is-an-ai-artist","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s new drawing bot is an AI artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsofts-new-drawing-bot-is-an-ai-artist.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft today is unveiling new artificial intelligence technology that\u2019s something of an artist \u2013 a \u201cdrawing bot.\u201d The bot is capable of creating images from text descriptions of an object, but it also adds details to those images that weren\u2019t included the text, indicating that the AI has a little imagination of its own, says Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you go to Bing and you search for a bird, you get a bird picture. But here, the pictures are created by the computer, pixel by pixel, from scratch,\u201d explained Xiaodong He, a principal researcher and research manager in the Deep Learning Technology Center at Microsoft\u2019s research lab in Redmond, Washington, in Microsoft\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/ai\/drawing-ai\/\" rel=\"noopener\">announcement<\/a>. \u201cThese birds may not exist in the real world \u2014 they are just an aspect of our computer\u2019s imagination of birds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bot is able to generate a variety of images, researchers say, including everything from \u201cordinary pastoral scenes,\u201d like those with grazing livestock, to the absurd \u2013 like \u201ca floating double-decker bus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/01\/18\/microsofts-new-drawing-bot-is-an-a-i-artist\/\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/01\/18\/microsofts-new-drawing-bot-is-an-a-i-artist\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft today is unveiling new artificial intelligence technology that\u2019s something of an artist \u2013 a \u201cdrawing bot.\u201d The bot is capable of creating images from text descriptions of an object, but it also adds details to those images that weren\u2019t included the text, indicating that the AI has a little imagination of its own, says [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}