Playing With GANs: GameGAN generated a fully functional Pac-Man.
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

Playing With GANs: GameGAN generated a fully functional Pac-Man.

Generative adversarial networks don’t just produce pretty pictures. They can build world models, too. A GAN generated a fully functional replica of the classic video game Pac-Man.

May 27, 20202 min read
Fake Detector: Using a discriminator network to spot deepfakes
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

Fake Detector: Using a discriminator network to spot deepfakes

AI’s ability to produce synthetic pictures that fool humans into believing they’re real has spurred a race to build neural networks that can tell the difference. Recent research achieved encouraging results.

May 6, 20202 min read
Fake Detector: Using a discriminator network to spot deepfakes
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

Fake Detector: Using a discriminator network to spot deepfakes

AI’s ability to produce synthetic pictures that fool humans into believing they’re real has spurred a race to build neural networks that can tell the difference. Recent research achieved encouraging results.

May 6, 20202 min read
Clothes Make the GAN: Acne Studios creates high fashion using GANs.
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

Clothes Make the GAN: Acne Studios creates high fashion using GANs.

Fashion models recently sashayed down Paris Fashion Week catwalks in outfits designed by deep neural nets. Swedish design firm Acne Studios based its 2020 fall/winter men’s line on output from a generative adversarial network.

March 11, 20202 min read
Clothes Make the GAN: Acne Studios creates high fashion using GANs.
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

Clothes Make the GAN: Acne Studios creates high fashion using GANs.

Fashion models recently sashayed down Paris Fashion Week catwalks in outfits designed by deep neural nets. Swedish design firm Acne Studios based its 2020 fall/winter men’s line on output from a generative adversarial network.

March 11, 20202 min read
History in Hi Res: How machine learning can enhance archival footage
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

History in Hi Res: How machine learning can enhance archival footage

While deep learning is taking us into the future, it’s also opening windows into the past. A Redditor brought 100-year-old silent film footage of New York City into the 21st century by automatically sharpening the picture, boosting the frame rate, and adding color.

March 4, 20201 min read
History in Hi Res: How machine learning can enhance archival footage
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

History in Hi Res: How machine learning can enhance archival footage

While deep learning is taking us into the future, it’s also opening windows into the past. A Redditor brought 100-year-old silent film footage of New York City into the 21st century by automatically sharpening the picture, boosting the frame rate, and adding color.

March 4, 20201 min read
. . . And I Approve of This Deepfake: How India's BJP used AI to create campaign videos
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

. . . And I Approve of This Deepfake: How India's BJP used AI to create campaign videos

Deepfake tech reared its digitally altered head in Indian politics, but with a twist: Altered images of a politician were produced by his own campaign.

February 26, 20201 min read
. . . And I Approve of This Deepfake: How India's BJP used AI to create campaign videos
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

. . . And I Approve of This Deepfake: How India's BJP used AI to create campaign videos

Deepfake tech reared its digitally altered head in Indian politics, but with a twist: Altered images of a politician were produced by his own campaign.

February 26, 20201 min read
Deepfakes Go Mainstream: Why 2019 was a big year for deepfakes
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

Deepfakes Go Mainstream: Why 2019 was a big year for deepfakes

Society awakened to the delight, threat, and sheer weirdness of realistic images and other media dreamed up by computers.

December 24, 20192 min read
Deepfakes Go Mainstream: Why 2019 was a big year for deepfakes
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

Deepfakes Go Mainstream: Why 2019 was a big year for deepfakes

Society awakened to the delight, threat, and sheer weirdness of realistic images and other media dreamed up by computers.

December 24, 20192 min read
Who’s Minding the Store?
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

Who’s Minding the Store?

Amazon, watch your back. There’s a new player in the book business and, unlike Jeff Bezos, it doesn’t need eight hours of sleep a night. The online bookstore Booksby.ai is run entirely by AI. Neural networks write the books, create the cover art, price the merchandise, even write the reviews.

November 6, 20191 min read
Unfinished Artwork? No More
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

Unfinished Artwork? No More

Generative networks can embroider sentences into stories and melodies into full-fledged arrangements. A new model does something similar with drawings.

November 6, 20192 min read
Unfinished Artwork? No More
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

Unfinished Artwork? No More

Generative networks can embroider sentences into stories and melodies into full-fledged arrangements. A new model does something similar with drawings.

November 6, 20192 min read
Who’s Minding the Store?
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

Who’s Minding the Store?

Amazon, watch your back. There’s a new player in the book business and, unlike Jeff Bezos, it doesn’t need eight hours of sleep a night. The online bookstore Booksby.ai is run entirely by AI. Neural networks write the books, create the cover art, price the merchandise, even write the reviews.

November 6, 20191 min read

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