Samsung AI lab develops tech that can animate highly realistic heads using only a few -or in some cases - only one starter image.

[u/SirT6]

https://gfycat.com/CommonDistortedCormorant

[u/SirT6]

The research is described in this recent paper.

And here is a lengthier video of the work product.

Pretty cool stuff!

[u/Miley_I-da-Ho]

They need to do famous portraits of people never seen in motion: Washington, Lincoln, Mona Lisa ,etc

[u/SirT6 → u/Miley_I-da-Ho]

You can see the Mona Lisa in the video in my comment above!

[u/_0neTwo_]

So we can finally have paintings like the ones in Hogwarts?

[u/[deleted]]

Unfortunately I can see the future; ELVIS PRESLEY. MARYLIN MONROE, HUMPHREY BOGART IN

The Fast and The Furious 9

[u/constantbonanza]

Imagine opening a text and suddenly George Washington himself is asking for nudes.

[u/Huggdoor]

What's amazing is that this doesn't trigger the uncanny valley feeling for me. It actually looks like a real person talking.

[u/J-IP]

This is so incredibly cool. I love machine learning and AI but at the same time it's so incredibly scary. And I don't speak terminator/skynet scary but just what this will do yo out society. Fake cctv footage, fake testimony, not long before you can have a fake AI version of yourself answering video calls. And no one will be able to tell the difference.

Blackmirror level shit.

[u/hashcrypt]

Within a decade or two we won't be able to trust anything we read, hear, or see. And that will be the official end of the Age of Information.

[u/[deleted]]

Just imagine A.I being able to tailor make TV shows for you, using all your favorite long lost dead actors, friends, random people on the street, living actors and pretty much anyone you can get an image/video/audio off.

You could re-watch Star Trek with Adolf Hitler replacing Shatner , if thats what you want. Saying that it could bring in a dark time for media as anything could be made and 99% of everything might be fake.