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Another ‘AI is functionally equivalent to magic’ post. DragGAN is an experimental AI App that allows for extensive intuitive photo editing on the fly, including changing perspective, facial features, hair colour and length.
“the results are mesmeric. DragGAN is an interactive way of editing photos or works of art by tagging points on an image and just… dragging. The AI does all the hard work.”
With the advent of ChatGPT and Midjourney, natural language AI tools are going seriously mainstream. Futurepedia does yeoman’s work of cataloguing the ongoing explosion of AI powered tools.
Prominent YouTuber Tom Scott thinks this may the beginning of a wave that transforms work and everything else.
From the Department of AI is Coming for Your Job: an algorithm that does a pretty fair job of separating a human in an image from its background. I uploaded the image of the woman at left, and downloaded the result at right, all in a few seconds. Check it out here. The free version works at limited resolution. There is a paid version (naturally) that works at much higher resolution. The underlying technology is pretty impressive.
