Ordinary Sketches Become Instant Masterpieces With "Vincent" A.I.

A team of ingenious engineers over at technology firm Cambridge Consultants has fabricated an A.I. machine that turns ordinary sketches into a digital art masterpiece. Dubbed "Vincent" after the legendary Van Gogh, the interactive software can generate iconic works of post-Renaissance art (works of Van Gogh, Cézanne, and Picasso) through a complex series of machine learning methods. As the user sketches, Vincent is able to recognize varying types of texture, color, and contrast to produce an ex...