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A new deep learning algorithm can generate high-resolution, photorealistic images of people — faces, hair, outfits, and all — from scratch.
The AI-generated models are the most realistic we've encountered, and the tech will soon be licensed out to clothing companies and advertising agencies interested in whipping up photogenic models without paying for lights or a catering budget. At the same time, similar algorithms could be misused to undermine public trust in digital media.
The algorithm was developed by DataGrid, a tech company housed on the campus of Japan's Kyoto University, according to a press release.
In a video showing off the tech, the AI morphs and poses model after model as their outfits transform, bomber jackets turning into winter coats and dresses melting into graphic tees.
Specifically, the new algorithm is a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). That's the kind of AI typically used to churn out new imitations of something that exists in the real world, whether they be video game levels or images that look like hand-drawn caricatures.
Source: https://futurism.com/ai-generates-entire-bodies-people-dont-exist
Generative Adversarial Network
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Reziac on Tuesday May 07 2019, @05:16AM (1 child)
Get a full thyroid workup, including parathyroid and cortisol, and blood chemistry (incl. vitamin D and calcium). Don't take no or a TSH test for an answer.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 3, Informative) by choose another one on Tuesday May 07 2019, @01:48PM
> Get a full thyroid workup. ... Don't take no or a TSH test for an answer.
This. In spades.
Free T4, free T3 levels and genetic conversion deficit (DIO2) test. Also get a full vitamin and minerals workup - there are some deficits which cause a whole chain of problems.