Let's call it a sign of the times.
Computer scientists in the Middle East recently patented an artificial intelligence program that can imitate human handwriting to an indistinguishable level.
The biggest advancement in Dubai, and what differentiated our results from past models, was in correlating the physical distance between text in images.
“To imitate someone's handwriting style, you want to look at the entire text,” said researcher Fahad Khan, adding that the focus is on how the writer connects letters and spaces words. He said it was assigned.
“We know that if you give a model some samples of someone's handwriting, it can learn that person's handwriting and write something in that person's handwriting style. I wanted to.” researcher who explained says Hisham Chollakal of the Mohammed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
To achieve their breakthrough results, the team used a computer neural network known as a “vision transformer.” Essentially, networks are relatively easy-to-train data analyzers that are used to read information in small or medium-sized images. According to Cornell University.
Researchers showed the handwritten text image generation style (HWT) to 100 people and found that it was 81% more likely to accurately capture human writing than other computer-generated writing styles. found the former to be the preferred style.
Researcher Salman Khan said: “Although we were unable to distinguish between imitated and real handwriting, it was gratifying to see validation of such performance.”
But Rao Muhammad Anwar, a researcher on the handwriting team, hopes the invention has the potential to help those fluent in English and train them in the more complex Arabic language, but it could also pose a risk of harm. I know that very well.
“We're being very cautious because it could be misused,” he said. “Handwriting represents a person's identity, so we carefully consider it before implementing it.”
This breakthrough comes as experts, including research teams in the Middle East, recognize the frightening and potentially nefarious power that AI has to imitate humans.
This has been done by duplicating audio (which AI practitioners say only takes a few seconds) or by manipulating images through generative AI or deepfakes.
These tactics are linked to cyber ransom demands that parents believe came from distressed children and students at a New Jersey high school that used AI to create fake naked photos of female classmates. It's connected.
