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Applesays it plans on introducing generative AI features to iPhones later this year.
Its called MGIE, or MLLM-Guided (multimodal large language model) Image Editing.
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The tech is theresult of a collaborationbetweenAppleand researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Public demonstration
The way MGIE works is pretty straightforward.
VentureBeat says people will need to provide explicit guidance.
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Youll have to guide it further to get the results you want.
MGIE is currently available onGitHub as an open-source project.
Theres also aweb demo available to the publicon the collaborative tech platform Hugging Face.
(Image credit: Cédric VT/Unsplash/Apple)
With access to this demo, we decided to take Apples AI out for a spin.
And in our experience, it did okay.
In one instance, we told it to change the background from blue to red.
(Image credit: Cédric VT/Unsplash/Apple)
However, MGIE instead made the background a darker shade of blue with static-like texturing.
There doesn’t appear to be any difference between the two.
MGIE is still a work in progress.
Outputs are not perfect.
One of the sample images shows the kitten turn into a monstrosity.
But we do expect all the bugs to be worked out down the line.
If you prefer a more hands-on approach, check outTechRadar’s guide on the best photo editors for 2024.
