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In attempt to make artificial intelligence more accessible and understandable to the average person, developers worldwide are creating demos and opening them to the public. Through pictures, music, drawings and more, these fun AI experiments show off the creative capacity of machine learning technology.

Here is a collection of the best AI experiments you can try online today.

AttnGAN — Image generation machine

Researchers at Microsoft’s Deep Learning Technology Center recently taught an algorithm to visualize text-based captions. When researchers trained the AI on only cat images, it was able to produce convincing output. However, when trained on a more diverse dataset of images, it became a bit overwhelmed.

Image: Rainie Nguyen

AI Duet — Play piano with an AI

Don’t have a partner to play piano with? The team at Google’s Creative Lab has built a piano that responds to you. Simply enter in some notes and the machine will respond to your melody.

pix2pix — Image to image translation

Thanks to this interactive demo, you can now turn your simple line drawings into beautiful works of art. Sketch a simple line drawing and watch the pix2pix AI automatically transform your creation into cats, buildings or shoes. Trained on pairs of images, pix2pix attempts to generate the corresponding output image from any input image you give it.

Shelley AI — Human-AI collaborated horror stories

Trained using creepy stories from Reddit’s r/nosleep subreddit, AI-based horror fiction author Shelley has been co-writing horror stories with Twitter since 2017.

Shelly relies on Twitter users to continue the story by writing a line themselves and then finishes it off with a twist of her own. Find short stories written by Shelley and more information on her homepage.

FastPhotoStyle — Photo style transfer

Created by tech company NVIDIA, FastPhotoStyle is an algorithm that can transfer the style from any photo to a completely different image, producing some pretty convincing results.

Here are some examples of what FastPhotoStyle can do:

Image: Yijun Li

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