New AI That Makes Fake Videos May Be the End of Reality as We Know It

A new artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm is capable of manufacturing simulated video imagery that is indiscernible from reality, say researchers at Nvidia, a California-based tech company. AI developers at the company have released details of a new project that allows its AI to generate fake videos using only minimal raw input data. The technology can render a flawlessly realistic sequence showing what a sunny street looks like when it's raining, for example, as well as what a cat or dog looks like as a different breed or even a person's face with a different facial expression. And this is video -- not photo. For their work, researchers tweaked a familiar algorithm, known as a generative adversarial network (GAN), to allow their AI to create fresh visual data.