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US patent office rules that artificial intelligence cannot be a legal inventor

Under current law, only natural persons may be named as an inventor in a patent application.

Does Artificial Intelligence Mean Data Visualization is Dead?

A great discussion about the relationship between AI and data visualization (more on it). Will we need a speedometer to visualize how fast a car is going when it’s driving itself?

Bubble Face

A tool by a comic book publisher can stylize any photo into their visual style.

Photo Wake-Up

An experimental tool can animate a character from a photo. They can walk out, run, sit, or jump in 3D. See also an experiment from Samsung that makes photos talk.

This Person Doesn't Exist Sketch Plugin

Stas Kulesh made a plugin that puts AI-generated faces into design mockups. It's a great application of a popular idea. Here's also a website (see similar websites for cats and rentals). Cautionresearchers backtracked these photos to find original people (see the research paper).

Nvidia GauGAN

The software will instantly turn a couple of lines into a gorgeous mountaintop sunset. This is MS Paint for the AI age. More about it. V2 can use a text prompt to generate images. It transformed into Nvidia Canvas tool later. Scribble Diffusion is a similar idea.

AI is bringing out the art world’s worst instincts

AI is like photography in the 19th century–struggling to be accepted as its own art form. Aaron Hertzmann discusses tricky situations in art world.

Alibaba LuBan

One-click intelligent design image generation, intelligent layout, size expansion, color expansion, and other design services. Users can generate multiple sets of design solutions that meet the requirements in real time by simply inputting the desired style and size. More about it.

InspiroBot

A generator of cliched inspirational quotes.

Generating custom photo-realistic faces using AI

An experimental tool by Shaobo Guan generates realistic photos of people. You can alter gender, age, race, and some facial details. StyleGAN from Nvidia is one of many similar tools. There's even "Hot or Not"!

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