AI Biweekly: Trending StyleGAN Raises Concerns; AI Applications in the Finance Industry

StyleGAN is an open-source, hyperrealistic human face generator with easy-to-use tools and models. An Uber engineer has now used StyleGan to create the website ThisPersonDoesNoteExist.com, which generates a new fake face every time the top page is refreshed. This site is trending, but the tech behind it not without controversy. GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks) are one of the most interesting technologies in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision. GANs have, however, also been used to build "deepfakes" in which individuals' faces are realistically superimposed on target videos, effectively making them appear to be another person -- and that other person is very often appearing in a porn film.