{"id":5427,"date":"2017-05-12T08:25:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T15:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=5427"},"modified":"2017-05-11T22:26:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T05:26:23","slug":"ai-powered-avatars-arrive-in-google-allo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/12\/ai-powered-avatars-arrive-in-google-allo\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto-create your animated avatar in Google Allo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think next-gen Bitmoji. Check it:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Today, Google is introducing a feature in <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.google.android.apps.fireball&amp;hl=en\">Allo<\/a> that uses a combination of neural networks and the work of artists to turn your selfie into a personalized sticker pack. <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/allo\/answer\/7126107\">Simply snap a selfie<\/a>, and it\u2019ll return an automatically generated illustrated version of you, on the fly, with customization options to help you personalize the stickers even further.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you\u2019re interested in the machine-learning technology that makes all this possible, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/research.googleblog.com\/2017\/05\/neural-network-generated-illustrations.html?m=1\">lots of detail from the Google Research team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-AD4KlSCL-2E\/WROV2QtjHSI\/AAAAAAAABzc\/G_f1w3s_RdgOXDx02RcdD1LvSBoOwBrPgCLcB\/s640\/image2.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/NewImage-12.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"600\" height=\"432\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think next-gen Bitmoji. Check it: Today, Google is introducing a feature in Allo that uses a combination of neural networks and the work of artists to turn your selfie into a personalized sticker pack. Simply snap a selfie, and it\u2019ll return an automatically generated illustrated version of you, on the fly, with customization options to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5429,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427\/revisions\/5429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}