New AI Shows What Historical Icons Really Looked Like - Nerdist

As machine learning ascends into realms of superhuman capability, it continues to do impressive and horrifying things with faces. For example: in one of his recent videos, YouTuber and software engineer Károly Zsolnai-Fehér outlines a new AI program that can make restored "super-resolution" versions of historical photographs. Versions that show us what historical figures like Abraham Lincoln and Albert Einstein really looked like. Zsolnai-Fehér posted the video describing the cutting-edge AI (above) to his YouTube channel, Two Minute Papers. Zsolnai-Fehér, who's made countless videos like this one, notes this explainer covers a recent paper describing Time-Travel Rephotography.