Terrifying Things Happen When an AI Generates Fake Faces Synced to Music

We're still trying to figure out the best applications for neural networks, machine learning, and all the recent advancements in artificial intelligence. Amongst all the practical research being conducted, there's also lots of frivolous experimentation being done with results that walk the line between fascinating and terrifying. Automated image processing has emerged as a strong suit of artificial neural networks, fuelled in part by decades of everyone sharing photos and selfies of each other on the internet. It's resulted in vast archives of headshots being harvested and used to train AIs to do everything from artificially aging users in novelty mobile apps to generating huge collections of photorealistic headshots of people that don't actually exist. The stock photography industry will never be the same, but Mario Klingemann wondered what would happen if those same artificial neural networks churning out fake headshots were synced to music, generating the most expressive faces when a song's beat is really banging.