A.I.” the GANs, generator”
look at this real-looking fake person.” In a society where pictures and images are the standard surrogates for “proof,” GANs — by automating the work that once required painstaking labor on the part of imaging experts —
Philip Wang is the 33-year-old software engineer responsible for creating (the artificial intelligence-powered) website This Person Does Not Exist that recently went viral. Each time the page is refreshed, an algorithm known as a generative adversarial network (GAN) (originally coded by Nvidia) renders hyper-realistic portraits of completely fake people.
Pattern Recognition
was designed to call attention to A.I.’s ever-increasing power to present as real images that are completely artificial...
