{"id":448,"date":"2018-11-26T09:52:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T09:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/26\/microsoft-researchers-build-a-bot-that-draws\/"},"modified":"2018-11-26T09:52:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T09:52:51","slug":"microsoft-researchers-build-a-bot-that-draws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/26\/microsoft-researchers-build-a-bot-that-draws\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Researchers Build a Bot that Draws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re handed a note that asks you to draw a picture of a bird with a yellow body, black wings and a short beak, chances are you\u2019ll start with a rough outline of a bird, then glance back at the note, see the yellow part and reach for a yellow pen to fill in the body, read the note again and reach for a black pen to draw the wings and, after a final check, shorten the beak and define it with a reflective glint. Then, for good measure, you might sketch a tree branch where the bird rests.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, there\u2019s a bot that can do that, too.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <ins data-ad-slot=\"5939622089\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6519338693755664\" class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"><\/ins> <\/p>\n<p>The new artificial intelligence technology under development in Microsoft\u2019s research labs is programmed to pay close attention to individual words when generating images from caption-like text descriptions. This deliberate focus produced a nearly three-fold boost in image quality compared to the previous state-of-the-art technique for text-to-image generation, according to results on an industry standard test reported in a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1711.10485\">research paper posted on arXiv.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/ai\/drawing-ai\/\" class=\"sqs-block-button-element--small sqs-block-button-element\" >Learn More<\/a>                                                                             <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumb-image lazyload\" alt=\"microsoft-researchers-build-a-bot-that-draws.001-1.png\" data-image=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/585e8f70bebafb65339930b8\/5a64f464ec212d8a1b84b664\/5a64f4659140b7b61f47732f\/1516565641680\/microsoft-researchers-build-a-bot-that-draws.001-1.png\" data-image-dimensions=\"1700x2200\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" 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