2019-02-16T13:11:44 Status: #blog Tags: #ai #nvidia #gan #technology Links: [[AI]] | [[Technology]] | [[GAN]] | [[NVIDIA]] # This person does not exist I’ve been very interested in current advances in Artificial Intelligence ([[AI]]) for several years now, so it is not quite often that a new website takes me by surprise. This week, one site managed to do just that: each time you hit refresh on [https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/](https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/) the site creates a shockingly realistic — but totally fake —picture of a person’s face using a generative adversarial networks ([[GAN]]) algorithm. Here is an example: ![[image.jpg]] The site was created by Uber engineer Phillip Wang as a clever demonstration. The underlying code behind this site is called [StyleGAN](https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan?fbclid=IwAR1qJiZfqcWipbv-LP0sWtw7IdnXzCN0lr9j8M9d2v1y40N41PZuPOeiOl0) and was created by Nvidia (NVDA) and featured in a [research paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04948). This GAN type of neural network has huge potential for video gaming technology - hence Nvidia’s interest and research - but could also be used to create more realistic [Deepfakes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfake) (AI-generated images or videos that can be used to push fake news narratives or other hoaxes). --- # References - https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ - https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04948