{"id":245337,"date":"2018-01-19T08:01:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T06:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=245337"},"modified":"2018-01-19T08:04:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T06:04:13","slug":"microsoft-ai-drawing-bot-image-processing-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/245337-microsoft-ai-drawing-bot-image-processing-improvement.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft AI drawing bot image processing improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/ai\/drawing-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>New AI technology<\/strong><\/a> under development at Microsoft is programmed to pay close attention to individual words when generating images from caption-like text descriptions.<\/p>\n<p>This focus produced a nearly three-fold boost in image quality compared to the previous technique for text-to-image generation.<\/p>\n<p>The technology, which the researchers call the drawing bot, can generate images of anything.<\/p>\n<p>Each image contains details that are absent from the text descriptions, indicating the AI contains an artificial imagination.<\/p>\n<p>The drawing bot closes a research circle around the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Microsoft-drawing-bot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-245341 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Microsoft-drawing-bot-640x369.jpg\" alt=\"Microsoft-drawing-bot\" width=\"640\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Microsoft-drawing-bot-640x369.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Microsoft-drawing-bot-600x346.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Microsoft-drawing-bot-768x443.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Microsoft-drawing-bot.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/242086-microsoft-adds-ai-features-to-bing.html\">Microsoft adds AI features to Bing<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft researchers have built a bot that draws what you tell it to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":242088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[48399,123],"class_list":["post-245337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-drawing-bot","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245349,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245337\/revisions\/245349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}