Images with people's faces were created with a special program using neural networks.
The app was created by the American developer Phillip Wang, he has partnered with Uber.
His program was based on the StyleGAN algorithm, which was recently developed and released to the public by NVIDIA Corporation, the same one that was better known as a manufacturer of video chips for computers.
Philip Wang launched a website https://thispersondoesnotexist.com
Here you can try out the face generator in action.
There is no interface today ... It's just that when you open a page of the site, a "photo of a person" is displayed on the screen, which was just modeled by a neural network when you visited the site.
To create a new image, you just need to refresh the page - the F5 key.
Some of the photos taken with the application look so natural that doubts even arise. Are these developers fooling our heads?
However, if you search for images in Google, the search engine does not find copies of the images on the web, although it tries to determine what is displayed.
Below is an example with the results of one of these checks.
Google determined that in the photo - Homo sapiens.
By the way, there is a familiar face down there - also Tom Cruise.
But I never found a photograph with this face.
But sometimes the Artificial Intelligence "messes up" and some bloopers and blots appear on some pictures, details that are difficult to recognize.
A couple of such examples.
It is quite obvious that this is only the beginning and it will be even more interesting in the future ...
About 10-15 years ago, watching a fantastic film, one might think that all those miracles that are told in the cinema, this all will not happen soon, not in our lifetime. However, we are already living at a time when the future has come.
Every day the process of creating and developing new technologies is accelerating, and in five years discoveries can occur, inventions can happen that today we can hardly imagine or do not imagine at all.
An interesting time. Fasten your seat belts and hold on tight.