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Machine Uses “Imagination” to Draw Images

A machine taught itself to create these images, after being shown a single image of a cow. 
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A machine taught itself to create the images above, after being shown an image of a cow. This imaginative machine is the creation of the Peter Thiel-backed startup Vicarious. 

Vicarious’s software is able to create these crude digital drawings by using its “imagination.”

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