Generating Pusheen with AI by Zack Nado.
From the post:
I made a machine learning program that generates new (sometimes novel!) Pusheen pictures!
(I don’t claim any ownership of Pusheen or anything Pusheen related, which is trademarked by Pusheen Corp.) It’s no secret that my girlfriend and I both are huge fans of Pusheen the cat, which many people know from the cute Facebook sticker sets. So, for her birthday I set out to try to create a machine learning program to create cat pictures for her to enjoy! To set some expectations for this post, I only did this for a fun project and didn’t really know what I expected to get out of it given that in all the data available there are really only a handful of unique poses and scenes. Also, you really only need a roughly oval shaped gray blob with eyes to look like Pusheen, so the bar wasn’t that high. That being said I am happy with the outcome and think it produces interesting and (usually) realistic poses and positions.
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Given the revolving door at the White House in Washington, DC, you will never be sort of material for generating facial or full body images for posting on social media.
None of them will be as attractive as Pusheen the cat, but, consider your starting point.
Enjoy!
PS: You will be laughing too much to notice you are learning AI skills. Does that suggest a possible approach to an introduction to AI?