This AI turns simple sketches into Van Gogh paintings

Cambridge Consultants has demonstrated an artificial intelligence system that takes simple sketches and transforms them into artwork that look like something created by Vincent Van Gogh or other famous painters. The system, which is nicknamed Vincent for obvious reasons, serves as a deep-learning demonstration for the company, which recently showcased the AI's abilities on video. The system uses machine learning to understand artwork produced by famous painters since the renaissance, among them being Picasso and Van Gogh. Using this knowledge that it acquires, the system can take a sketch created by a human and apply art effects to it in an intelligent way, the end result being a colorful'painting' that looks like something created by a skilled human. Cambridge Consultants explains that it trained its AI with images of thousands of paintings, helping it learn things like contrast, textures, and color application.