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You have to see this Vancouver-themed art created by AI (PHOTOS)

Using word prompts and filters the AI generates entirely unique works of art in a matter of seconds! 🤯

When it's not powering self-driving cars or tracking your every online purchase, AI - artificial intelligence - has a side gig creating art.

WOMBO AI is a Canadian artificial intelligence company that earlier this year released an app called WOMBO Dream. The app, and through an , uses AI to combine word prompts with an art style to create beautiful and completely original paintings in a matter of seconds.

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ ran several Vancouver-specific search terms through the app and came out with some… intriguing results.

AI Art: Vancouver_Affordable_Housing_Fantasy
What Vancouver's affordable housing looks like to an AI (using a fantasy filter of course). WOMBO AI

The prompt “Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Affordable Housing” (run through the fantasy filter of course) spat out a jumbled wall of apartments stretching into cloudy skies. Pretty accurate. 

The “Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Mountains” prompt turned out a gorgeous piece that looks like an oil painting of the city with a mass of mountains and trees looming above it. 

AI Art: Vancouver_Mountains
The “Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Mountains” prompt turned out a gorgeous piece that looks like an oil painting!. WOMBO AI

WOMBO was even able to conjure up the famous English Bay Barge with the prompt “Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Barge.” While the shape of the barge leaves something to be desired, the red rusty colour is spot on. 

“Stanley Park” generated using the Ukiyoe filter turned created a mix of city structures, water and greenery that gives off a vague ancient Japanese feeling.