This AI Transforms Sketches Into Landscape Photos

NVIDIA is really at the forefront of developing next-gen artificial intelligence technology. Given its huge presence in video games, among other industries, that’s really no surprise. At NVIDIA GTC 2019, the company unveiled a Microsoft Paint-like application called GauGAN that uses generative adversarial networks to transform your simple paint sketch into a realistic-looking photo. There […]

NBC Report Wrongly Implies Machine Learning Companies Skim Photos from Flickr, SmugMug Chief and Creative Commons CEO Respond

Earlier this week, NBC News released a report on how Creative Commons images were being used for machine learning, specifically to train AI how to recognize faces. This report ensnared photography community Flickr and made some users mistakenly think that the company had given permission to these tech firms for them to use community member […]

Whale Accidentally Swallows Diver

Wildlife photography is guaranteed to tell a story, whether you want it to do so or not. One diver almost found himself re-enacting Jonah and the whale this week as he was accidentally swallowed by a Bryde’s whale while “documenting a sardine run” according to PetaPixel. This would-be Jonah, Rainer Schimpf, was then promptly spat […]