Incredible AI app can 'repaint' your photos, make them look like they were composed by famous artists

An iOS app has gone viral in post-Soviet states this past week, racking up over 650,000 downloads and the top spot in app stores around the region. Russian internet giant Mail.Ru even announced an investment into the product yesterday – a 10 percent stake that reportedly amounts to 2 million. The Russian-made photo app, Prisma, allows users to customize their images by feeding photos through an artificial intelligence that "repaints" them in the stye of great artists like Van Gogh, Munch, and Picasso. Unlike many other photo apps, Prisma doesn't simply slap a filter on top. Instead, the AI completely reinterprets the images using a deep learning method known as convolutional neural networks.