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Twitter has just acquired a fantastically named startup called Magic Pony, which specializes in using artificial intelligence for visual processing. The point of it all? Making sharper live video. Magic Pony’s research centers around using neural networks compare an image to a library of similar ones. Basically, it knows what the important bits of an image are to our human eyes and fills in the gaps. The technology has previously been used to generate complex high resolution textures from smaller ones – kind of like a more advanced version of Photoshop’s Content-Aware Fill: Perhaps more impressively (and more relevant to Twitter)…

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