Researchers at Google have developed a new AI tool called Chimera Painter that turns doodles into unusual creatures. This tool uses machine learning to create representation based on the user's rough sketches. Before this, Nvidia has used a similar concept with landscapes, and MIT and IBM have produced a similar idea with buildings. A high level of technical knowledge and artistic creativity is required to create art for digital video games. Game artists need to promptly iterate on ideas and develop many assets to meet tight deadlines.

A GAN is a machine learning model in which two convolutional neural networks compete with each other to become more accurate in their predictions. For Chimera Painter, one network created new images, and the other network tried to determine if the pictures were from a sample training data set, which featured artist-created images. The outlines characterized the shape and size of the creature and separated out each identifiable body part, including the legs, eyes, ears, head, muzzle, horns and wings. After training the model, it was then used to produce multi-species chimeras based on those outlines, according to Google. Researchers put the best model into Chimera Painter.

Google has created a new machine learning model that can automatically create renderings from a user supplied creature outline. The trained machine learning model is called Chimera Painter. It's a machine learning model that can act as a paintbrush for a digital artist to reduce the amount of time required for creating high-quality art without impacting artistic choice. Chimera Painter is a demo application that can add features and textures to a creature outline segmented with body parts labeled with labels like "wings" or "claws." When the user presses the transform button, the algorithm would create the artwork for them.

To quote Google CEO Sundar Pichai: AI is "more profound than fire or electricity." To back up this claim with incontrovertible evidence: here's an AI tool made by Google researchers that turns doodles into weird monsters. What could be more profound? The tool is called Chimera Painter and uses machine learning to generate imagery based on users' rough sketches. This sort of dynamic is becoming a relatively common one in machine learning.

Google has taken the wraps off Chimera Painter, a web-based tool that lets anyone generate terrifying cryptozoological entities in an interface that looks like MS Paint by way of Diablo. No… no, I suppose it isn't. Surely the strangest thing to hit Google's AI blog for at least a month, the Chimera Painter does actually have something like a reason for existing. The team was looking at ways to accelerate the creation of art for games, which is often fantastical and creative. An AI assistant that could produce a reasonable image of, say, an owlbear on the hunt, might be helpful to an artist looking for inspiration.