This AI system can adjust the contrast, size, and shape of images

Artificial intelligence (AI) and art are less diametrically opposed than you might think. Already, in fact, autonomous systems are working in lockstep with artists to generate holiday songs, canvases auctioned at Christie's, and craft colorful logos. And now, a software developer has harnessed AI's generative powers to manipulate contrast, color, and other attributes in images. Holly Grimm, a graduate of OpenAI's Scholar program, describes her work in a preprint paper published on Arxiv.org The foundation of Grimm's AI model is a generative adversarial network (GAN), a two-part neural net consisting of a data-producing generator and a discriminator -- the latter of which attempts to distinguish between the generator's synthetic samples and real-world samples.