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Project Stardust Innovation and Exploration Product Manager Sofaya Philémon showed off the crowd and co-host Morimoto’s favorite that night. Without much in the way of introduction other than saying she needed an image of a couple walking a dog, Ms. Philémon brought up a photo of a couple walking hand-in-hand down a cobblestone urban street. They were composed off center and she wanted to fix that. She clicked on the couple, which were quickly encased, individually, with bounding boxes and moved them, as if they were on their own layers. They were not. AI did all the weightlifting, selecting the people and filling in the background as they moved. The same AI skill can be used to identify the blurred folks in the background, but you don’t have to delete them one by one. You can just have Stardust identify the distractions in the background and it will do all that for you. “Let the robots do the work, y’all!” she shouted as the audience cheered. Now, the nice couple needed a dog to walk and, calling on Firefly, Stardust took care of that little detail. It also changed out the woman’s red plaid shirt. Philémon just clicked on it and Stardust identified it as a shirt and found a selection of orange sweaters, as requested. It popped into place with the subject’s long hair and shoulder bags still draped over her shoulder, light and shadow subtly matching the surroundings. In another example, Stardust was able to complete the missing third of a face when she had it pull the person blocking it out of the way. She left the audience with the challenge, “If you could edit a photo as if it was real, what would you create? Project Stardust lets “the robots to the work”