The website has no text, no explanation and no indication of who created it, but it can automatically spit out an image of a person that has never existed, and probably never will. ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com uses a complicated algorithm to instantly produce a computer-generated face that looks human, but is not actually real. They trained a computer with 70,000 pictures of human faces pulled from Flickr. Another GAN can take impressionist paintings and automatically reimagine what they would look like as real-life photographs. As researchers explained in a paper released this month, the same program can also spit out cars that don’t exist, bedrooms that don’t exist and cats that don’t exist, among others.

Source: National Post February 14, 2019 21:22 UTC