This Guy Figured Out How to 'Cut and Paste' the Real World Into Photoshop

Artist, designer and programmer Cyril Diagne recently created a bit of tech that looks more like science fiction that science fact. Using a combination of augmented reality and machine learning tech, he's figured out a way to "copy and paste" objects from the real world into Photoshop, using just a smartphone. What might, at first blush, seem like special effects trickery or an April Fools prank is actually a piece of bona-fide tech that he's actually published to GitHub. As the description on GitHub explains, this is "an AR ML prototype that allows cutting elements from your surroundings and pasting them in an image editing software." According to Diagne, the "secret sauce" is a piece of machine learning (AKA "Artificial Intelligence") tech called BASNet, which automatically recognizes and cuts out real-world objects when taking a photograph.