bas uterwijk uses AI to create portraits of famous historical figures

bas uterwijk is a freelance photographer that uses GAN (generative adversarial network) to generate hyper-realistic portraits of famous historical figures. trained with thousands of photographs, these deep learning networks are able to generate photographs that look — at least superficially — genuine to the human eye. from michelangelo’s david and napoleon to the statue of liberty, uterwijk uses artificial intelligence to create photography-type images that might give us an idea of how these people really looked like.

https://www.designboom.com/technology/bas-sterwijk-artbreeder-ai-famous-portraits-07-11-2020/