MIT breaks new ground in AI with 'deep' knitting, yes, knitting ZDNet

A hot trend in artificial intelligence in recent years has been the rise of impressive fakes -- fake headshots, fake videos, fake text. Deep learning techniques, part of machine learning, have gotten better and better at taking real-world data and using it to make something artificial, such as a picture, seem incredibly convincing. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Monday announced an AI approach that goes in the opposite direction: it takes something real and makes it artificial. The application is somewhat surprising: knitted garments that need to be reproduced. The system studies a picture of a garment and computes a series of stitches to give to an automated knitting machine.