You will never meet them at a restaurant, church or the range for an ODT meetup.
You cannot call them, email them or send them an instant message.
They own no homes, businesses or even possessions of any sort.
You will never find out what their family is like or who their friends are.
They have no job, no bank account and no identification such a driver's license or passport.
And nope... it's not a new horde of Jason Bourne types.
These people (well, their pictures actually) were created by a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) -- a relatively new concept in machine learning which has only been around since 2014. The goal of a GAN is to synthesize artificial samples, such as images, that are indistinguishable from authentic images. One thing they can do now is generate hi-res, authentic-looking but totally artificial face images by "learning" from a data set of known faces.
https://www.lyrn.ai/2018/12/26/a-st...itecture-for-generative-adversarial-networks/
Watch it in action:
You cannot call them, email them or send them an instant message.
They own no homes, businesses or even possessions of any sort.
You will never find out what their family is like or who their friends are.
They have no job, no bank account and no identification such a driver's license or passport.
And nope... it's not a new horde of Jason Bourne types.
These people (well, their pictures actually) were created by a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) -- a relatively new concept in machine learning which has only been around since 2014. The goal of a GAN is to synthesize artificial samples, such as images, that are indistinguishable from authentic images. One thing they can do now is generate hi-res, authentic-looking but totally artificial face images by "learning" from a data set of known faces.
https://www.lyrn.ai/2018/12/26/a-st...itecture-for-generative-adversarial-networks/
Watch it in action:
