New AI Generates Freakishly Realistic People Who Don't Actually Exist

At first glance, the two rows of portraits at the top of this article just look like a bunch of average-looking people. The catch is, none of them exist. All of these faces are fakes, put together by artificial intelligence. To be more precise, these faces are created by a generative adversarial network (GAN) developed by Nvidia, using deep learning techniques to produce realistic portraits out of a database of existing photos. Head over to the This Person Does Not Exist website to see for yourself: every time you refresh the page, you get a new face.