A developer has trained artificial intelligence software to be able to dream up its own Halloween masks and the results are downright terrifying. Matt Reed, a creative technologist at Nashville-based advertising agency Red Pepper, trained a neural network by supplying it with 5,000 images of popular Halloween masks, like Jason Voorhees from the 1980's horror film'Friday the 13th.' A developer has trained a neural network to be able to create its own Halloween masks. The AI uses a general adversarial network, a type of algorithm that is used in automated machine learning software. It'pits two networks against each other' to be able to improve over time.

Fright night just got scarier. A neural network trained on 5000 images of Halloween masks has dreamt up its own versions, and they're more terrifying than the real thing. "What's so scary or unsettling about it is that it's not so detailed that it shows you everything. It leaves just enough open for your imagination to connect the dots," says Matt Reed at Red Pepper, a creative agency.