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How an A.I. â??cat-and-mouse gameâ?? generates believable fake photos
She looks like Jennifer Aniston, the "Friends" actress, or Selena Gomez, the child star turned pop singer. But not exactly.
She appears to be a celebrity, one of the beautiful people photographed outside a movie premiere or an awards show. And yet you cannot quite place her.
That's because she's not real. She was created by a machine.
The image is one of the faux celebrity photos generated by software under development at Nvidia, the big-name computer chipmaker that is investing heavily in research involving artificial intelligence.
The project is part of a vast and varied effort to build technology that can automatically generate convincing images â?? or alter existing images in equally convincing ways. The hope is that this technology can significantly accelerate and improve the creation of computer interfaces, games, movies and other media, eventually allowing software to create realistic imagery in moments rather than the hours â?? if not days â?? it can now take human developers.

Nvidia's images can't match the resolution of images produced by a top-of-the-line camera, but when viewed on even the largest smartphones, they are sharp, detailed and, in many cases, remarkably convincing.
Like other prominent AI researchers, the Nvidia team believes the techniques that drive this project will continue to improve in the months and years to come, generating significantly larger and more complex images.
"We think we can push this further, generating not just photos but 3-D images that can be used in computer games and films," said Jaakko Lehtinen, one of the researchers behind the project.
Today, many systems generate images and sounds using a complex algorithm called a neural network. This is a way of identifying patterns in large amounts of data. By identifying common patterns in thousands of car photos, for instance, a neural network can learn to identify a car. But it can also work in the other direction: It can use those patterns to generate its own car photos.
A second team of Nvidia researchers recently built a system that can automatically alter a street photo taken on a summer's day so that it looks like a snowy winter scene. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have designed another that learns to convert horses into zebras and Monets into van Goghs. DeepMind, a London-based AI lab owned by Google,is exploring technology that can generate its own ...(Continued on next page)
videos. And Adobe is fashioning similar machine learning techniques with an eye toward pushing them into products like Photoshop, its popular image design tool.
But new concerns come with the power to create this kind of imagery.
"The concern is that these techniques will rise to the point where it becomes very difficult to discern truth from falsity," said Tim Hwang, who previously oversaw AI policy at Google and is now director of the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund, an effort to fund ethical AI research. "You might believe that accelerates problems we already have."
In August, a group at the University of Washington made headlines when it built a system that could put new words into the mouth of a Barack Obama video. Others, including Pinscreen, a California startup, and iFlyTek of China, are developing similar techniques using images of President Donald Trump.