By new, unseen examples; I mean like the animals in No Man's Sky. A couple of images of the animals are:So, upon playing this game, I was curious about how good is AI at generating visual characters or examples?
How good is AI at generating new, unseen [visual] examples?
research;image recognition
We are getting pretty good at image generation, some examples:Radford, Alec, Luke Metz, and Soumith Chintala. Unsupervised representation learning with deep convolutional generative adversarial networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.06434 (2015). https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.06434.pdfGregor, Karol, Ivo Danihelka, Alex Graves, Danilo Jimenez Rezende, and Daan Wierstra. DRAW: A recurrent neural network for image generation. arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.04623 (2015). https://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.04623.pdfFrom (1):Then there is another research direction around  evolutionary algorithms, for example:Sims, Karl. Evolving virtual creatures. In Proceedings of the 21st annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp. 15-22. ACM, 1994. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=6031059536657676358&hl=en&as_sdt=0,22 ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBt0imn77Zg