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NVidia AI Project Creates Photos of People Who Don't Exist

posted by janrinok on Wednesday January 03 2018, @09:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the a-girl-for-all-geeks dept.

takyon writes:

How an A.I. 'Cat-and-Mouse Game' Generates Believable Fake Photos (archive)

The woman in the photo seems familiar. She looks like Jennifer Aniston, the "Friends" actress, or Selena Gomez, the child star turned pop singer. But not exactly. She appears to be a celebrity, one of the beautiful people photographed outside a movie premiere or an awards show. And yet, you cannot quite place her. That's because she's not real. She was created by a machine.

The image is one of the faux celebrity photos generated by software under development at Nvidia, the big-name computer chip maker that is investing heavily in research involving artificial intelligence.

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.

The project is part of a vast and varied effort to build technology that can automatically generate convincing images — or alter existing images in equally convincing ways. The hope is that this technology can significantly accelerate and improve the creation of computer interfaces, games, movies and other media, eventually allowing software to create realistic imagery in moments rather than the hours — if not days — it can now take human developers.

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  • (Score: 2) by MrGuy on Wednesday January 03 2018, @09:50PM (4 children)

    by MrGuy (1007) on Wednesday January 03 2018, @09:50PM (#617369)

    Either I'm missing the thrust of your comment, or we're looking at two different articles.

    Both the NY Times article linked and the PDF that's linked as a secondary contain images.

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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Wednesday January 03 2018, @09:58PM (3 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Wednesday January 03 2018, @09:58PM (#617376) Journal
    You're probably viewing it with an excessively permissive browser.

    The NYTimes article contains no images, just placeholders where it expects them to eventually be overlaid by some kind of ecmascript payload.
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    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday January 03 2018, @10:19PM (2 children)

      by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Wednesday January 03 2018, @10:19PM (#617388) Journal

      I gave you an archive link which displays the images (slowly), and you have the PDF.

      For the future: Whenever I include an "(archive)" link next to something, I intend for that to be used as a workaround for a paywall or JavaScript issues.

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      • (Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday January 04 2018, @05:38AM (1 child)

        by Arik (4543) on Thursday January 04 2018, @05:38AM (#617536) Journal
        Oh I wasn't criticizing you, just poking the times.
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