In the novel A Brief History of Intelligence by Max S Bennet; Max Mentions how far the AI has come!
In one such example he tells us about a site!
I checked it out today! Shocking beyond words!
I am placing the site address for your shock!
ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com
As the site says, the person you click on DOES NOT exist! Every time you click on the link you get a different person!
Now I know you are intrigued but still you think what is so great about that! Well. each image generated when you click on the link is a person who is not real! He or she does not exist!
It is simply mind blowing!
So “This Person Does Not Exist” refers to a viral web project that uses artificial intelligence to generate hyper-realistic portraits of human beings who have never actually lived!
The core technology is called the StyleGAN! This is a generative adversarial network (GAN), developed by researchers at Nvidia in late 2018!
Yes! The Nvidia which makes your graphics cards for your very hyperrealist gaming experience!
The Process involves two neural networks—a “generator” that tries to create images and a “discriminator” that tries to detect if they are fake. They “train” against each other until the generator can produce images indistinguishable from real photos!
The most amazing thing here is that there is no human involved in the Generation of the random image of a HUMAN!
The model was trained on the Flickr-Faces-HQ (FFHQ) dataset, which contains 70,000 high-quality images of real human faces!
The site itself was created by software engineer Phillip Wang in 2019 to raise public awareness about the capabilities of AI!
Each time you refresh the page, the site generates a brand-new, unique 1024×1024 pixel portrait from scratch using a random 512-dimensional vector!
Of course it is a gold mine of images now!
Artists use it to generate unique characters for games, novels, or graphic designs.
It also provides “worry-free” faces for company websites, diverse profile pictures, or advertisements without the need for model releases or actor fees!
Users have even converted these AI portraits into 3D models using tools like Character Creator!
Then again where there is USE, there is ABUSE! (I am going to copyright this one!)
The technology can be used to create realistic fake social media profiles (sock puppets) to push propaganda or commit scams!
While many faces look real, some contain “artifacts”—glitches like distorted backgrounds, strangely shaped earrings, or “ghost” teeth—that can appear unsettling.
Researchers have also found that some generated faces bear a striking resemblance to real people from the original training data, raising potential privacy concerns! The evil twin is not that far away!
Then again success leads to copycats! (another copyright quote!)
The site has inspired copy cats such as well; This Cat Does Not Exist! which Generates realistic feline images! Followed by This Waifu Does Not Exist which is for anime fans! or This Rental Does Not Exist which generates fake Airbnb-style listing!
In summary; there is a very high probability that nothing in the digital world is real! If you want to see real people then put the phone down and turn to one side!
Or catch up some old movie like Jewel thief which also had a twin story who does not exist! Directed by Vijay Anand!
Do check out the site though! Since we do exist!
Shubh ratri!
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