In the past five years, Machine Learning has come a long way. You might have noticed that Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant are way better than they used to be, or that automatic translation on websites, while still fairly spotty, is hugely improved from where it was a few years ago. But many still don't quite grasp how far we've come, and how fast. Recently, two images made the rounds that underscore the huge advances machine learning has made -- and show why we're in for a new age of mischief and online fakery. The first was put together by Ian Goodfellow, the director of machine learning at Apple's Special Projects Group and a leader in the field.

In the past five years, machine learning has come a long way. You might have noticed that Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant are way better than they used to be, or that automatic translation on websites, while still fairly spotty, is hugely improved from where it was a few years ago. But many still don't quite grasp how far we've come, and how fast. Recently, two images made the rounds that underscore the huge advances machine learning has made -- and show why we're in for a new age of mischief and online fakery. The first was put together by Ian Goodfellow, the director of machine learning at Apple's Special Projects Group and a leader in the field. He looked over machine-learning papers published on the online open-access repository arXiv over the past five years, and found examples of machine learning-generated faces from each year.