To highlight the synergies between man and machine, AI is sometimes referred to as Augmented Intelligence (AI), putting the emphasis on the system to augment our abilities rather than replacing us altogether.
One area that is becoming increasingly popular—and of particular interest to myself—is assisted creation systems, an area that sits at the intersection of the fields of human-computer interaction (HCI) and ML. These are systems created to assist in some creative tasks such as drawing, writing, video, and music.
The example we will discuss in this section is shadow draw, a research project undertaken at Microsoft in 2011 by Y.J. Lee, L. Zitnick, and M. Cohen. Shadow draw is a ...
