Mindboggling AI Program Allows You to 'Fly' Into a Landscape Photograph

Google has created a program where the viewer can "fly into" a still photo using artificially intelligent (AI) 3D models. In a new paper entitled InfiniteNature-Zero, the researchers take a landscape photo and then use AI to "fly" into it like a bird, with clever software generating a fake landscape thanks to machine learning. When facing the daunting task, researchers had to fill in information that a still photo doesn't provide, such as hidden areas in a photo. For example, a spot that is hidden behind trees needs to be generated. This can be done by "inpainting," the AI will simulate what it thinks would be there by the process of machine learning with huge datasets.