Microsoft's New AI Creates Fake Photos From Your Words

To my eye, the birds look entirely real. Another, a forest green tail, with a long beak that looks perfect for hooking bugs out of tree bark. But these photos I'm looking at are complete fictions. They're images that come straight from the imagination of Microsoft's latest AI, dubbed AttnGAN. They were created by typing a sentence into the system, like, "this bird is red and white with a very short beak." AttnGAN then generated these highly realistic, 256 x 256 pixel photos of fictional birds from nothing.