By Chris Skeldon 
Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, this Thursday released source code that allows it to animate drawings of hand-made human characters, such as those made by children, with artificial intelligence (AI).
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement that the company has open source cartoons and published a first-of-its-kind database of nearly 180,000 fan drawings to help researchers and other creators of artificial intelligence continue to innovate.
Meta released the prototype of this animation tool in 2021, and now it has shared the code.
“Our researchers have developed the first method of using artificial intelligence to animate hand-drawn child and human figures, that is, a character with two arms, two legs, and a head,” Zuckerberg said in the note. from the press.
According to Meta, by sending drawings to this system, “parents and children can see their drawings turn into animated characters that dance and jump.”
“By teaching artificial intelligence to work effectively with children’s drawings, we hope this project will bring us closer to building artificial intelligence capable of understanding the world from a human point of view,” the tech giant affirmed.