Job automation, algorithmic bias, and technological development are the first thoughts that spring to mind when we think of Artificial Intelligence. But at the same time, AI can be used in many fun and interesting ways.
Here, we discuss ten fun AI tools that you must try out. Besides being a great way to kill boredom, they demonstrate how advanced AI has already become.
1. Semantris
Semantris is one of the many Google-powered AI experiments. This word association game uses a neural network to choose the words most related to the ones you type in. Semantris has two modes: Arcade and Blocks.
In Arcade mode, you're given a word, and you’ve to type a clue about it that the AI understands. If Semantris picks up your clue, the word gets eliminated. While you think and type, more words keep getting added. When the list of words hits the tops of your screen, you lose.
In Blocks mode, Semantris gives several blocks of different colors, each having a word. You’re asked to type a clue about any of these words. The AI guesses the word and removes that block and any linked blocks of the same color.
Semantris a really engaging game and helps you understand how the algorithms understand our languages.
2. Deepart.io
Deepart.io converts your images into beautiful artworks. To create your own artwork, upload a photo and decide which style you want to have applied to the image.
Though Deepart.io has numerous styles, you can upload the style image yourself as well. The images take some time to get converted, but the results are quite astonishing.
Deepart.io has three plans, including a free one. But the images made using the free plan are low-resolution. If you want to print your art on your shirt or mug, you can purchase the high-resolution image.
3. Generative Engine
Made with Runaway, Generative Engine is a storytelling machine. Using AttnGAN, it creates images from the text you provide.
Generative Engine asks you to write anything, and, as you write, it creates a synthetic image based on the text. As you keep typing, it updates the image in real-time.
After writing a few sentences, you can watch the playback and see your image update with the addition of each phrase. Though the images are quite blurred and sometimes completely off, it’s still quite an interesting tool.
4. Cyborg Writer
Cyborg Writer is another fascinating tool that can mimic the different writing styles. To use Cyborg Writer, start by writing a few words and click on Synthesize.
The Cyborg Writer continues your sentences, mimicking the style you selected. These include styles of the U.S. Supreme Court, William Shakespeare, Donald Trump, Wikipedia, etc.
It can also mimic Eminem, Tupac Shakur, and Taylor Swift. Sometimes the text makes little sense, but it copies the style nicely and is quite fun to play with.
5. FreddieMeter
FreddieMeter is another Google AI experiment you should try out. This tool asks the users to mimic Freddie Mercury’s voice and then rates the resemblance of their voice to Freddie's.
To see how well you can mimic Freddie, pick any of Freddie's available songs to sing. Then, the tool records and analyzes your voice. FreddieMeter shows a percentage of resemblance, based on melody, pitch, and timbre.
6. Quick, Draw!
Quick, Draw! is a really addictive online Pictionary game. However, in this AI-powered game, the neural network guesses what you have drawn.
Quick, Draw! gives you an object to draw on your screen within 20 seconds. During this time, it keeps guessing what you’re drawing until it recognizes it or the time runs out. In each game, you’ve to draw six doodles for Quick, Draw! to guess.
This is quite an interesting game and shows the progress that AI has made in understanding images.
7. Deep Nostalgia
Deep Nostalgia is a mind-blowing tool that animates the faces in photos using deep learning. Made by My Heritage, this tool is mainly used to bring your ancestors' photos to life by animating their faces.
The animations include different facial expressions and gestures like a smile, blink, and head movement.
To animate the photos of your forefathers, start by creating a free account on My Heritage and uploading a photo. Deep Nostalgia will create an animation within a minute.
It lets you colorize and enhance the images to give a more realistic feel. You can choose from default animation or pick gestures of your choice.
8. Talk to Books
Talk to Books is another semantic experiment by Google that tries to understand human conversations. In this experiment, you’re asked to type any question or statement.
Then, the tool searches more than 100,000 books for sentences that are likely to appear next in real-life conversations.
To get more relevant results, Talk to Books suggests using complete sentences, not keywords. You can filter the books by category to get better results.
But remember that it doesn’t check the results for the accuracy of the information, it just tries to find the semantically related sentences.
9. DeepBeat
DeepBeat is an AI-powered rap lyrics writer that uses thousands of lyrics in its database to come up with new ideas.
To generate rap lyrics, either enter a line to start with or let it write from scratch. Then, click on Generate. You can also enter the keywords to include in the song. DeepBeat can write in English and Finnish.
Whether you want to come up with lyrics or want to have some fun, DeepBeat is a great tool.
10. Google Shadow Art
Google Shadow Art is a tool that lets you test your shadow puppetry skills. First, you have to choose an animal whose shadow you want to create with your hands.
The tool will then show you an outline that you've to match. As you perform the gesture, the AI tool tries to recognize the animal. There are a total of 12 animals, so you can try them all and see how many you can create correctly.
AI Is Getting Better Each Day
Though AI itself is emotionless, humans can create fun and interesting tools using it. These tools and experiments are not only a way to have fun, but also demonstrate just how far artificial intelligence has come.
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