Bored. How about you use your selfie and a single word of choice for art? Well, with Google AI and Poem Portraits, you can do that. Time to waste your time on the internet has never been better.
This is one among many of Google’s fun projects such as fine-art doppelgängers and 3D world heritage tours of last year.
Your doppelganger could be in an art museum!! This new feature in the Google Art and Culture app matches your selfie to a famous painting.The feature allows you to take a selfie and you automatically get a list of portraits that resemble you. pic.twitter.com/bU49KstaPU
— Techweez (@techweez) January 15, 2018
People found their look-alike using the app that was geo-fenced to the US only but using a VPN and boom, here’s your doppelgänger!
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bd71SnTAjIr
What’s Poem Portraits about?
According to Es Devlin, a London-based artist and stage designer, Poem Portraits is a team effort between her, Google Arts & Culture and Ross Goodwin. This is a combination of poetry, design, and machine learning. The program invites people to generate their own compositions and contribute to an evolving poem.
You just go to g.co/poemportraits where you donate a word and post an optional selfie and then wait as the Poem Portraits program figures out life and existence in general as it comes up with a stanza(it sometimes is nonsensical depending on the word you choose to donate.)
Poem Portraits works a bit like predictive text and it doesn’t copy or rework existing phrases but uses its training material to build a complex statistical model. This is why the resulting stanza is either surprisingly poignant or incomprehensible
What’s the endgame here?
According to Es Devlin, each word you donate will be expanded into original lines of poetry by an algorithm that’s trained on millions of words of 19th-century poetry.
Poem Portraits is so addictive that you can spend hours upon hours donating normal and strange words to the program and you definitely can’t stop.
Go check it out and try not to ruin the whole poem for future’s sake.
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