Artificial Intelligence Software Easily Generates Digital Art

Researchers from Adobe and University of California, Berkeley developed software that automatically generates images inspired by the color and shape of the digital brushstroke. The software uses deep neural networks to learn the features of landscapes and architecture, like the appearance of grass or blue skies. Drawing a dark-colored, upside-down V triggers the AI to conjure a mountain or church steeple, where its seen the shape and color before. A blue line above that becomes a sky with various hues of blue, and a green line below becomes textured grass. Using CUDA, TITAN X GPU and the cuDNN version of the Theano deep learning framework, the researchers trained their models on more than 275,000 images of churches and landscapes.