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This Person Does Not Exist - but do YOU?

Tatiana Gordeeva

Tatiana Gordeeva

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Something fun to ponder over the weekend, during a Saturday night dinner with friends, something along the lines of the Simulation Theory.

Each time the following web page is reloaded a completely fake new human face is created by this artificial intelligence (AI) system:

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

If today our admittedly limited AI systems, still in their infancy, can already generate such realistic rendering who can say for sure that in 50, 100 or 200 years (a very short time for human history) they will not be able to animate them, give them intelligence, make them conscious, let them interact, give them a "world" to live in? Remember Sim City and The Sims?

More importantly, who can say for sure that WE are not ALREADY such artificial intelligence creations, interacting with each other, believing that we are in control. Maybe we actually are like chess pieces, moving in predetermined ways in a preset environment, unaware of the players and of their universe...

I'm just having fun here... Or maybe THEY are!!! :eek:
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I call bullshit! The fourth person I clicked on is one of the checkout girls at my local supermarket :eek:

Actually, all jokes aside, I found the whole thing freakishly un-nerving.
 
Marcus Millfield said:
www.vox.com

Are we living in a computer simulation? I don’t know. Probably.

Why this computer scientist thinks reality might be a video game.
www.vox.com www.vox.com
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Yes, that and hundreds (thousands?) of articles since 2003, not even counting people who confuse this with the Matrix movies. The idea is even seriously discussed by Nobel physicists (I'm not talking about Elon Musk here :roflmao:).

The problem is that if we are living in a simulation how would we be able to know it (and forget glitches in the matrix type of things!).
 
Yep, visit this from time to time. Quite astonishing. But sometimes you will see weird things in the background like a alien deformed limb, or a scary eye in the wrong place. It's not perfect, but pretty good. The hair is sometimes odd too.



thissnackdoesnotexist.com

Lavander Stuffed Fritos Corn Chips

Visit thissnackdoesnotexist.com to check if Lavander Stuffed Fritos Corn Chips exists already and generate more jaw dropping snacks.
thissnackdoesnotexist.com

thisrentaldoesnotexist.com

Superbe T3 de OL I, Loft d'artiste Lagoon

My place is a 5 minute walk to the Leith Park station. It has FIVE HOLLYWOOD or both ends with Jamaicain Station, close to all trains, shops and restaurants. Lounges plus a nunvery rise laundry. I'm available if before or severvenaire. Whether you`re in family or friends or family. Our apartment...
thisrentaldoesnotexist.com

Loads more here:

thisxdoesnotexist.com

This X Does Not Exist

Using generative adversarial networks (GAN), we can learn how to create realistic-looking fake versions of almost anything, as shown by this collection of sites that have sprung up in the past month.
thisxdoesnotexist.com thisxdoesnotexist.com
 
Tatiana Gordeeva said:
The problem is that if we are living in a simulation how would we be able to know it (and forget glitches in the matrix type of things!).
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Reality is nothing more than what each of us perceives to be real. An apple is red because our brain decodes it to be that color from the light the apple reflects and our eyes catch. That light is reflected because the apple absorbs the rest of it. So one can say that to the apple, it's everything but red.

If each and every one of us creates his or her own reality, we'll never experience things the same way. The question really is: why should we care?
 
What AI does, AI can also (sometimes) undo :)

There is already research to reverse the process that creates artificial faces by matching them back to the training data used to generate them.

www.technologyreview.com

AI fake-face generators can be rewound to reveal the real faces they trained on

Researchers are calling into doubt the popular idea that deep-learning models are “black boxes” that reveal nothing about what goes on inside
www.technologyreview.com www.technologyreview.com

The article includes some examples. Each row shows the generated artificial faces on the left, and three matching faces from the training data the right:

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Marcus Millfield said:
If each and every one of us creates his or her own reality, we'll never experience things the same way. The question really is: why should we care?
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Maybe you and I should not even care but physicists do and they have yet to come to a consensus on what constitutes "reality". Interesting question for curious minds nonetheless, don't you think? :)
 
rudi said:
There is already research to reverse the process that creates artificial faces by matching them back to the training data used to generate them.
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I've read that one of the main challenge of AI is to understand how it arrives at a given result, what are the processes used or paths followed within its neural network.
 
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