This AI can paint real worlds completely from memory

Google may have taught its AI to dream up filthy images based off of real-world examples, but one researcher has built an AI capable of painting entirely new worlds completely from scratch. The image at the top of this story isn't real, it's a fake world painted by an AI. Created by Qifeng Chen from Stanford University and Intel, the AI essentially paints by numbers what it believes a street view should look like. By using thousands of reference images, learning where a "car", "road" or "sign" should be placed, it can then paint a depiction of the real world – one that technically doesn't exist at all. Trained with 3,000 images of German streets, the AI is able to recognise what a "car" is, drawing one from memory.