The sprawling cityscapes of Grand Theft Auto V have been given an AI-powered makeover that makes the game’s online world look almost photorealistic. Researchers at Intel Labs transformed the graphics by training convolutional networks on real-world images. The network then applied the style of the training data to rendered images from the game. In one example, the team trained the model on the Cityscapes dataset, a collection of urban street scenes recorded primarily in Germany. [Read more: This dude drove an EV from the Netherlands to New Zealand — here are his 3 top road trip tips] This generated game graphics with smoother asphalt on…

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