Microsoft's New AI Artist Bot Can Draw Any Picture Based On Your Description

The new artificial intelligence technology is programmed to pay attention to particular words while creating images from text descriptions. This technique of focused attention has allowed about three times increase in image quality as compared to previous text-to-image generation. Xiaodong He, a principal researcher in Deep Learning Technology at Microsoft, says that the pictures produced by the bot are created pixel by pixel, from scratch. "These birds may not exist in the real world -- they are just an aspect of our computer's imagination of birds," he added. At the core of this artist bot, there's a technology named Generative Adversarial Network, or GAN.