A Neural Network Will Turn Your Terrible Drawings Into Good Art

Or at least trippy art

By Dave Gershgorn | Published Mar 10, 2016 9:46 PM EST

Technology

Google's artificial neural network has some explaining to do. Michael Tyka/ Google

The great artists of the past were masters of line, form, and medium. Now, you just need Twitter.

New work by artificial intelligence researcher Alex Champandard can transform the most simplistic drawing in Microsoft Paint into a passable work of art. The algorithm, called Neural Doodle, is an image-focused type of artificial intelligence, called a convolutional neural network.