The Mona Lisa was brought to life in vivid detail by deepfake AI researchers at Samsung

AI researchers at Samsung have developed a way to animate classic portraits, bringing them to life. In a new paper, researchers from Samsung's AI center in Moscow, along with the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, detail how they built a system for modelling human faces using as few images as possible. The findings build on existing so-called "deepfake" techniques, which is used to graft one person's face onto a video of someone else. Read more: The AI tech behind scary-real celebrity "deepfakes" is being used to create completely fictitious faces, cats, and Airbnb listings Deepfake software usually relies on capturing lots of data about a person's face, usually using clips of video. The new technique focuses on using just a few photographs, or even just one still image.