Meet the researchers bringing bizarre AI creations to life

Time to throw on your oversized graduation cap and ruffly shirt, spritz yourself with some of your new "Hivinga" perfume, and meet your better half for some sweet potato, beans, and brie pizza covered with "snipped caramel cheese." Things that don't seem quite right here. Oh, right, that's because all these date night tips came from a series of artificial intelligence algorithms custom-built to generate new clothing designs, pizza recipes, and perfumes. Whatever bizarre (and, frankly, unappetizing) ideas the AI systems conjured were built by a group of MIT researchers and students called How to Generate (Almost) Anything. The team builds and trains algorithms that can tackle seemingly creative tasks to come up with brand new designs for each week's theme.