Of artificial advances

Technology is amazing!

Recently went down a rabbit-hole watching how neural networks and artificial intelligence could generate images from datasets and it blew my mind. In particular, I tried Toonify Yourself which was developed to train an A.I. to convert photographs into cartoony or “Pixarish” versions of yourself. Personally I felt it came out a little more like an impressionist painting but its fun to play with.

Another really amazing site is ThisPersonDoesNotExist, which generates a portrait of someone based on data therefore the person does not exist. A creepy yet pretty useful thing to have handy if in need of a false identity. The portrait below is totally generated and therefore does not require consent but its amazing!