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<\/div>Faking It<\/h2>
We officially can no longer trust anything we see on the internet. From whole-body deep fakes<\/a> to AI-based translation dubbing<\/a>, technology is starting to distort reality — all with the help of machine learning.<\/p> Case in point: researchers at NVIDIA have harnessed the power of a generative adversarial network (GAN) — a class of neural network — to generate some extremely realistic faces<\/a>. The results are more impressive than anything we’ve seen before. Take a look below, bearing in mind that none of these faces are real.<\/p> A GAN can iteratively generate images based on genuine photos it learns from. Then it evaluates the new images against the original. In this instance, the researchers taught a GAN a number of “styles” — faces modeled after subjects who were old, young, wearing glasses, or had different hair styles.<\/p> The results are spectacular. Even small seemingly random details like freckles, skin pores or stubble are convincingly distributed in the images the project generated.<\/p> The network even took a crack at generating fake pictures of cats. They didn’t turn out quite as well.<\/p> It’s not the first time a GAN has been used to generate pictures of people. Last year, the same group of NVIDIA researchers created a neural-network-based image generator<\/a>. But results were far less impressive: faces appear distorted and unnatural. The results are also of a much lower resolution.<\/p> Neural networks are becoming incredibly good at faking human faces. Will we be able to tell them apart in the future? At this rate, they could become indistinguishable from reality.<\/p> READ MORE: <\/strong>A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks<\/a> [arXiv]<\/p> More on neural network-generated faces: These People Never Existed. They Were Made by an AI.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p> The post Look at These Incredibly Realistic Faces Generated By A Neural Network<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Visit link: Faking It We officially can no longer trust anything we see on the internet. From whole-body deep fakes to AI-based translation dubbing , technology is starting to distort\u00a0reality \u2014 all with the help of machine learning. Case in point: researchers at NVIDIA have harnessed the power of a generative adversarial network (GAN) \u2014 a class of neural network \u2014 to generate some\u00a0 extremely realistic faces Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/wp-assets.futurism.com\/2018\/12\/ai1.jpg\")
Fake Faces<\/h2>
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AI Rising<\/h2>
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