This is an AI system that can turn people into animals and vice versa

People often associate natural creatures with concepts: what year they are, what zodiac sign corresponds to which creature, then 'fierce as a tiger' or 'gentle as a dog'. But YouTuber and amateur AI researcher Xander Steenbrugge push this further: he wrote a program to turn people into animals and vice versa.

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Like many other image conversion systems, the program written by Mr. Steenbrugge also uses Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs); They learn images from a large database and try to create the desired image thanks to the images put into the system. Deepfake technology also takes advantage of the power of GANs.

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To create the so-called 'humanimal' image, Mr. Steenbrugge used 15,000 standard HD animal images and put it into a breeding system called StarGAN v2. After that, Mr. Steenbrugge used a set of human face images to make learning data for the system, running through another creation sample called StyleGAN v2. 

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' Most academic reports talk about a way of creating images with clear A-purpose, ' Steenbrugge told Motherboard. ' But because machine learning methods are so flexible, sometimes you can do both B, C and D with just a prototype that makes images, just put other data in and see what happens. interesting place '.

This experiment is only part of a major project of Mr. Steenbrugge, called Neural Synesthesia - Combining Neural Networks; He desires to create audio-visual experiences that will appeal to people enjoying with algorithms and machine learning models. 

' I believe we are witnessing the beginning of the digital content era with creativity coming from people interacting with machines. I'm not alone in creating these works, I co-authored them with models of artificial intelligence that I breathed life into . '