This Animated Mona Lisa Was Created by AI, and It Is Terrifying.

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A new type of artificial intelligence can generate a "living portrait" from just one image.
Credit: Egor Zakharov
▼ The enigmatic, painted smile of the "Mona Lisa" is known around the world, but that famous face recently displayed a startling new range of expressions, courtesy of artificial intelligence(AI).
In a video shared to YouTubeon May 21, three video clips show disconcerting examples of the Mona Lisa as she moves her lips and turns her head. She was created by a convolutional neural network — a type of AI that processes information much as a human brain does, to analyze and process images.
Researchers trained the algorithm to understand facial features' general shapes and how they behave relative to each other, and then to apply that information to still images. The result was a realistic video sequence of new facial expressions from a single frame.
For the Mona Lisa videos, the AI "learned" facial movement from datasets of three human subjects, producing three very different animations. While each of the three clips was still recognizable as the Mona Lisa, variations in the training models' looks and behavior lent distinct "personalities" to the "living portraits," Egor Zakharov, an engineer with the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, and the Samsung AI Center (both located in Moscow), explained in the video.
Zakharov and his colleagues also generated animations from photos of 20th-century cultural icons such as Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe and Salvador Dali. (▪ ▪ ▪)

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Jack Sparrow

This is quite fascinating..

warlikeprince

Monalisa is Marvel of medival era. Great Leonardo Da Vinci created it but it's true legacy lies in most researchers even now trying to uncover the secrets of Painting which they thought hidden in it...
It's my favourite painting...

Jbnast

Spooky now what computers can do.

ssangra

Gosh amazing..it appears that age was a factor in the models that the AI took as a base...an older woman, a younger one and a middle aged one.