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Let's start from Covid-19 tragedy which overwhelmed the entire world and killed, to this day, over 100,000 Americans in a very short time. To better understand the enormity of such a number and to stimulate empathy someone wanted to put 100 thousand faces one next to the other. You can see the project at this address: 100,000 faces (in the meantime unfortunately it has become 200 thousand). Even the New York Times, in its own way, did something similar.
100 thousand faces
An achievement of undoubted effectiveness, Being able to put a face to numbers is not always easy. Furthermore, the incredible thing about this project is that these 100 thousand faces do not exist. They were all created by a computer, by an artificial intelligence. It is explained well here the process of creating this virtual memorial. In fact, understanding such large numbers is not easy for the human mind, we had already seen it when we talked about Jeff Bezos' riches.
In fact, this is precisely the topic we would like to explore further, some very interesting projects indeed which work thanks to the artificial neural network.
100 thousand faces and more
We have just read an example and it resumes the project This Person Does Not Exist. In fact, on this site the face of a person who does not exist is that it never existed. It is a face automatically generated thanks to a generative adversarial network. Just reload the page to be able to see another one. Nothing short of incredible and when associated with Fake the World makes it all even a little disturbing!
If this surprised you, know that it also exists in the same project This Artwork Does Not Exists, or works of art created by artificial intelligence. They also exist artificially generated kittens: This Cat Does Not Exist. Always with the exact same method also exists This Horse Does Not Exist.
Although this is the most famous project, there is also another equally notable one called Not A Real Human. It works a little worse than the previous one but it's still an incredible experience. Even in this case there is one version for cats call Not A Real Cat.
The end of journalism?
Let's go further, because thanks to artificial intelligence it is not only possible create incredibly realistic human faces. For example, do you want to read an article written not by a human being but by a computer? Until recently the project existed This Article Does Not Exist. Application every 30 minutes took titles found on Reddit come on Hacker News and created a real article from scratch. Now unfortunately going to that domain the project seems to no longer exist but they are still there many copies on archive.org.
Still on the subject of journalism and words we offer you This Word Does Not Exist where a machine learning algorithm will show you each time you reload the page an invented word (in English, of course). A truly curious and interesting experiment! Who knows what an Italian version of it would be like.
The future of music?
If you are instead music enthusiasts we inform you of the existence of Jukebox! A neural network that generates music And musical lyrics. You can hear all the music created by an artificial intelligence on Jukebox Sample Explorer.
These experiments are becoming more and more important and work better and better, so much so that Google has managed to create artificial intelligence capable of beating a human at Quake 3 during a match"Capture the flag” (the classic “flag-stealer” that we often see in first-person shooters). And recently it seems that an AI managed to reconstruct the painting technique of the most famous artists (here the video). We will go further than a song written by an artificial intelligence he will also win Eurovision?
We leave you with an image where, apparently, an algorithm has managed to reconstruct incredibly realistic human faces starting from simple hand-made sketches. Unfortunately we haven't found any references to this other than this topic on Reddit so we cannot confirm it with certainty!
Update September 14, 2021
We found another very nice project that concerns artificial intelligence. Cartoons from The New Yorker created by a machine. Click here to see some of them and to read the interesting article.
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