In a year dominated by chatbots, visual AI tools continue to advance at a rapid pace.
A new AI research model called DragGAN (spotted by The Verge(opens in a new tab)) caused quite a stir on social media this weekend, and for good reason. The idea is that you can reshape images to your liking with just a mouse cursor and a simple graphical interface not unlike Photoshop.
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The possibilities here are quite amazing. If you generate a photo of a lion and want it to point in a different direction, just use your mouse to point its face in that direction and DragGAN will regenerate the image on the fly. You can change the shape of a car or someone’s clothes with minimal effort. It’s quite an impressive effect.
The kicker, of course, is that this isn’t something you can really use right now. It is part of a research paper(opens in a new tab) that occasionally crashes due to the high interest. At least if you manage to get in there are plenty of cool videos showing you how it works.
Just another crazy AI toy to add to the pile.