Robert Downey Jr. praised Jon Favreau for being ambitious in his filmmaking, shouting out many films he has directed, including'The Lion King' and'The Jungle Book.' Robert Downey Jr. might be devoid of iron, but he's sure got some steel. The Academy Award-winning actor, 59, is speaking out about rapid technological advancements and how he plans to fight back if his name and likeness are manipulated by artificial intelligence. "I intend to sue," he told the "On with Kara Swisher" podcast. HOLLYWOOD EXECS WARN AI STEALS JOBS BUT CAN'T DO JOB OF TRUE ARTISTS: 'I WANT TO WORK WITH HUMAN BEINGS' Robert Downey Jr. says he plans to sue if someone manipulates his likeness through artificial intelligence. It all comes back to Downey Jr.'s alter ego, Tony Stark, whose own alter ego is Iron Man.

Before color photography took off in the 1960s, most photographs existed in black and white. Today, we can appreciate photography from past decades and centuries, but our appreciation for them is limited to the range of colors in which they were developed. More so, photographs don't last forever: if not preserved properly, their images fade, and with it our clarity of their history and memory blurs. Of course, history is not black and white, and nor should personal and global histories fade from memory, especially not colorful moments in American history. Technical advances in artificial intelligence and image processing have created new possibilities for restoring dimensions of color and visuality to historical, photographic artifacts.

You can't go back in time to see how Monet or Van Gogh made their masterpieces, but AI might give you the next best thing. MIT CSAIL researchers have created a machine learning system, Timecraft, that can deduce how a painting was produced and recreate the likely brushstrokes, even for famous artists. The design was first trained on 200 timelapse videos of digital and watercolor paintings, after which the scientists produced a convolutional neural network to'deconstruct' artwork based on what it had learned. The results aren't perfect, but they're more effective than you might think. Timecraft was better than existing benchmark tests over 90 percent of the time.

You can't go back in time to see how Monet or Van Gogh made their masterpieces, but AI might give you the next best thing. MIT CSAIL researchers have created a machine learning system, Timecraft, that can deduce how a painting was produced and recreate the likely brushstrokes, even for famous artists. The design was first trained on 200 timelapse videos of digital and watercolor paintings, after which the scientists produced a convolutional neural network to'deconstruct' artwork based on what it had learned. The results aren't perfect, but they're more effective than you might think. Timecraft was better than existing benchmark tests over 90 percent of the time.