Dystopian robot tailor makes terrible shirts

Machine learning and artificial intelligence have been used for several exciting tasks in recent years, including helping fight against mental illness, discovering new exoplanets, and teaching AI systems new languages. There's one task that AI hasn't mastered: making clothing. It probably seems a little mundane compared to exploring the universe, but for most of us, finding a good shirt is more useful than finding a new planet. A California-based clothing company has been trying to help AI make the move from the fabric of the cosmos to just…well, fabric. Original Stitch lets users create their own button-up dress shirts.