11. What would you say to having your selfie turned into a Van Gogh or Matisse painting? That's exactly what you can do with DeepArt, an algorithm that can generate a digital painting from any photo. It is now available for the first time on a platform designed at EPFL. Machines are no longer satisfied with beating up on chess and Go champions. They are now displaying an artistic bent and are capable of producing paintings that would be the envy of many artists. And it has nothing to do with photo filters: the computer starts with a clean canvas - or rather a white screen. The DeepArt algorithm was developed at the University of Tübingen in Germany and is now available for public use on a platform designed by Lukasz Kidzinski, an EPFL researcher at the CHILI Lab.
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