Nvidia's new AI creates 'people' out of thin air

Nvidia yesterday revealed an AI capable of producing photograph-quality images of people who don't exist. The next time you click on an attractive profile pic you might be admiring the fictional creation of a clever computer. Alan Turing, we need you now more than ever. The researchers built a global adversarial network (GAN) to pit two AI systems against one another in a quest to produce high quality "photographs" of fake people. Scientists fed the AI images of actual celebrities to get it started, from there it practiced on gradually increasing resolutions until it was able to produce fairly realistic pics. There are some problems with the images, a keen-eye will notice several flaws and an expert will easily dismiss them.