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by YeGoblynQueenne 1620 days ago
Hello and thank you for answering questions. The following is a quote from your article:

>> It is interesting to note that from this process, the AI is not merely learning to copy the works it has seen, but forming high-level (shapes) and low-level (texture) features for constructing original pictures in its own mental representation.

Can you explain what you mean by "mental" representation? Does your system have a mind?

Also, why are you calling it "an AI"? Is it because you think it is an artificial intelligence, say like the robots in science fiction movies? Is it capable of anything else than generating images?

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Not OP, but I wonder if the process would be in some way comparable to rigging a 3D model. There is well, you usually have some high-level input parameters, which influence joints on a predefined skeleton, which in turn determines the position of individual vertices in the 3D body. Finally, the 3D shape is used to render the actual pixels.

On each step, high-level parameters are combined with predefined weights to produce a more low-level output.

Seems, a similar transformation is going on here, except that the weights and the structure are somehow learned on its own.