How an A.I. ‘Cat-and-Mouse Game’ Generates Believable Fake Photos – The New York Times

How an A.I. ‘Cat-and-Mouse Game’ Generates Believable Fake Photos

Researchers in Finland have developed artificial intelligence that can generate images of celebrity look-alikes — and another system that tests how believable they are.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/02/technology/ai-generated-photos.html?_r=0

At a lab in Finland, a small team of Nvidia researchers recently built a system that can analyze thousands of (real) celebrity snapshots, recognize common patterns, and create new images that look much the same — but are still a little different. The system can also generate realistic images of horses, buses, bicycles, plants and many other common objects.