Fwd: I Asked an AI Robot to Imagine Iconic Bay Area Scenes

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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 at 22:20
Subject: I Asked an AI Robot to Imagine Iconic Bay Area Scenes
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Thomas Smith in The Bold Italic  ·  5 min read I Asked an AI Robot to Imagine Iconic Bay Area Scenes The results are… well, spooky and beautiful and unsettling Redwood trees in sunlight. (Photo credit: Thomas Smith via NVIDIA GauGAN) NVIDIA is known for creating mind-blowing AI technologies. The Silicon Valley company makes graphics cards for gaming and cryptocurrency mining, but they also put those cards to use performing all kinds of AI wizardry. The company was one of the originators of Generative Adversarial Networks, the technology behind Internet sensation ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com as well as numerous more practical generative AI systems. Now NVIDIA has shifted their AI focus to something else: using deep learning networks to imagine places and scenes that don't actually exist and to create them in a computer in photorealistic detail. The company's new system for doing this… Read more

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