r/artificial - A Google intern built the AI behind these shockingly good fake images

According to the report, a new algorithm called BigGAN can create detailed and quite realistic photos from scratch. "BigGAN, the last three letters of which stand for generative adversarial network. This kind of neural net is composed of two models: one that conjures random images out of random numbers, and one that compares these generated images to real images and tells the generator just how far off it is. GANs are common in machine learning research, and BigGAN isn't that different from other algorithms out there. But there is one big difference: BigGAN throws a ton of computational power, courtesy of Google, at the problem."