23 January,2022 08:10 AM IST | Mumbai | Jaison Lewis
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Artificial Intelligence has a bad reputation especially if you go by the countless movies, TV shows and video games that peg it as the bad guy. However, if you want to experience AI for yourself, several fun projects use machine learning to do everything from producing literature to painting artistic portraits. Some of these projects also have their source code available for anyone who wants to learn how to create AI projects. Guaranteed no Skynet here.
Conduct a virtual orchestra using your hands and your browser. This uses AI to detect your body through the camera and then uses your hand gestures to play a western classical piece of music. Your movements determine volume and what kind of instruments play during the piece. Along with making you feel like a conductor, it is also a great workout.
bit.ly/smdaiart
You don't need to know how to programme to create your own AI project. Teachable Machine is a bot that can learn with inputs from you. It can take images, sounds and poses to create a poll of data that can be then used to train the machine. The trained model can be used as is or be exported to any project you desire.
bit.ly/smdteacher
Deep art uses any two pictures to create unique pieces of art. Users can upload any picture they like and have the AI bot create a piece of art using any style. There are several art styles to choose from, or you can upload an art piece you like and the bot will learn and draw the picture in that style. It can make for unique portraits and display pictures.
deepart.io
If you fancy yourself as an excellent singer why not compare your vocal prowess to Freddie Mercury, legendary frontman from Queen. The artificial intelligence on this site will record you singing your best Freddie and then compare it with data points collected from the original vocals. You then get a percentage score of how close you sounded. It's a fun exercise and tells you little details of where you faltered. To make things more interesting, there is a little shareable result at the end of the exercise that you can post on your social media.
bit.ly/smdfreddie
With this experiment, researchers used machine learning to classify and sort thousands of bird sounds visually. It's a job that would be too tough to do physically but with machine learning, the team was able to do it fairly quickly. There are sounds from a hundred different birds and clicking on the sound plays them. You can also click and drag to see how the computer has sorted these sounds.
bit.ly/smdbirds
How good are you at lip-syncing? This AI bot can track your mouth movement and calculate how well you have synched up with the words. While it is great for your social media there is only one song available on the website. It is still a lot of fun. Besides the fun aspect, the project is used to make speech recognition models for people with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) a disease that can cause speech impairments.
bit.ly/smdlipsync
How cool would it be to animate your doodles? Scroobly does just that. It lets you draw a doodle and then lets you use your camera and body to animate the doodle. You can have the doodle animated over the video of you or have the background completely removed. You can record your animated doodle and have the entire thing downloaded.
www.scroobly.com
Can AI detect your doodles? This project aims to figure that out. You start by drawing a doodle of something the website tells you to and the machine tries to guess it within 20 seconds. The AI is surprisingly good at figuring out what you are drawing, often getting the right answer in under 10 seconds. There are times, however, where the bot doesn't get it.
bit.ly/smdquickdraw
Semantris is a word association game that uses machine learning to eliminate words from a grid of falling words. You have to enter words that remind you or are associated with the words on the screen. If the bot makes the same association, it removes the word block. You lose the game when the blocks reach the top just like Tetris.
bit.ly/smdtris
Writing something profound is not easy, but what if you could have an AI do it. Cyborg writer is just that, it has 13 different styles of writing. Just start with a sentence and the bot will write the rest in the style you choose. You can have the bot be all serious or raise the weirdness level to take the writing on tangents you would never expect.
cyborg.tenso.rs
Move mirror is a tracking AI that tracks the movement of your body and matches it with a set of images. So, the images on the screen match your body movement. There is a slight delay but it is fairly accurate and not to mention fun. It's great to keep the kids entertained as well.
bit.ly/smdmovemirror
The AI artist consists of two neural networks using a process called GAN (Generative Adversarial Network). While one creates the art, the other criticises it to figure out which one is real art vs AI art. The art creating a neural network was trained using thousands of famous pieces of art. The comparison process makes the art creating AI better over time at producing fake pieces of art.
bit.ly/smdaiart
