I wonder how many years it'll take for someone to train a neural network to generate emojis for all possible modifiers, regardless of whether they're currently real combinations.
The Google keyboard on Android (and, I think iOS) already lets you do this[1]. Go to the emoji picker on the keyboard and select an emoji or two. You get 4-5 suggestions of randomly added modifiers for the selected emoji.
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I wonder how many years it'll take for someone to train a neural network to generate emojis for all possible modifiers, regardless of whether they're currently real combinations.
The Google keyboard on Android (and, I think iOS) already lets you do this[1]. Go to the emoji picker on the keyboard and select an emoji or two. You get 4-5 suggestions of randomly added modifiers for the selected emoji.
https://9to5google.com/2020/12/03/gboard-emoji-kitchen-expan...
There's Emoji Mashup Bot+ - "Tries to create new emojis out of three random emoji parts"
https://twitter.com/emojimashupplus
Nice! A more "old-school" procgen-like approach, but that makes it all the more elegant in how effective it is in its simplicity
Intuitively, I think this would be doable today with style transfer networks. But maybe there wouldn't be enough training data with existing emojis.
I hope someone who knows more about it can tune in...