NVIDIA researchers are back with another project that uses artificial intelligence to generate entirely new images from existing source images. Unlike past work that involved portraits of humans, however, this latest work — called GANimal — transforms an image of an animal into different animals, including other species.
Using an AI technique called generative adversarial networks (GANs), among other things, the researchers developed GANimal, an app that takes the expression of an animal from an image and recreates it on an image of a different animal. Examples include taking an expression from one breed of dog and replicating it on other dog breeds.
Though this is a fun example of the underlying technology, NVIDIA researchers say it could one day be put to use in more serious work. One given example of GANimal's potential use is engaging filmmakers to shoot images of a tame animal doing stunts, such as a dog, and then using the AI to apply those movements onto a less tame animal, such as a tiger.
"A.I." here means "neural networks". However, there is no "intelligence" here in the usual sense, thinking or anything else cognitive. I would not call image synthesis A.I., and it was never called A.I. before somebody used neural networks for it.
Give us more tools to produce fake news! You cannot trust pictures since long ago. Completely fabricated videos are the next big thing. We can see now that our lust for Hollywood style illusion is enabling unlimited opportunities for lies and manipulation. Special effects presumable created for innocent fun will be put to use in crime and crooked politics. We must be aware that we cannot believe anything we see on a screen. Not funny at all.
I agree, i remember when back in 1995 i got my first computer and could imagine what one could do with it, i was naive and thought most things people do for fun and not for real but i was wrong, now its used immorally as much as possible.
As i completely agree with what you said we have to understand that every time we buy smartphone with newest ai tech in them we vote for programs like this to be processed. We economically 'demand' and they provide. This whole technology is going to be used against humanity and it will be part of big punishement for our wrong doing.
Thats just it, you get a snarling tiger but never the subleties of a real tiger, no flaws that would make it seem real.
Chaplins lion in the cage was not a good actor but the audience knew it was for fun, today people dont like it if its not spoonfed realistically to them without flaws.
Their next project maybe is interhuman-animal faceswap. So you can see how you would have looked as a cat or, in case everything would had gone terrierbly wrong, a dog.
There are people who are very much interested in real photography, and have less or zero interest in CGI graphics. AI genarated images are part of the latter.
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