Artificial Intelligence: Put Your Photo in, See What AI Creates

How does Artificial Intelligence think you look?

Now you have the chance to find out for free, as researchers have launched AI Portraits which creates a portrait of your face from a closeup photo or selfie.

This movie shows the way AI takes  an actual photo of you, analyzes key features, and then morphs it into a portrait of what it thinks you must look like. 

How does AI have a clue about all of this?

The AI algorithm goes to work, analyzing your face for key features, then comparing and contrasting your features against photos it has studied. It then creates a portrait based on how it thinks you must look.

In this case, the database was trained, or taught—if you want to think of it that way—by studying and analyzing hundreds of celebrities and their appearances.

Futurism discovered that AI was a bit off on how it imagined President Trump's image:

We also did a test of our own by showing the AI portrait generator a photo of "The Bald Futurist" Steve Brown, speaking at a recent SecureWorld conference.

Can AI paint a futurist  accurately? Maybe in the future.

Brown will be talking about this technology at SecureWorld Boston, New England's largest cybersecurity conference, happening March 27-28, 2019. 

Because of that, we wanted to give the AI portrait generator a second chance at getting "The Bald Futurist" just right. So we put a close up photo of him into the system:

The mouth shape changed a little bit, his neck became fuzzier, and the dark part of his right eyebrow seems to have shifted. That was about it for changes. His glasses vanished in both portraits.

We're not sure, but the more we looked at his image, the more we felt like the celebrity database may be seeing a bit of George Clooney in Steve Brown. Can you see any of that?

Just for fun, we also tested out a Bumblebee type character, who made appearances at SecureWorld conferences this year.

Uh-oh, AI has trouble transforming him accurately.

Government controlled facial recognition is much more powerful

Maybe you're wondering if Artificial Intelligence is so smart, after all, when you see these comparisons.

But keep in mind this AI algorithm only had a very limited database of faces to work with. This is what it knows of the world.

There are many millions of photos available, however, to AI, government, and companies. And facial recognition is getting so good, Microsoft's president says we have reason to be worried.

Recode reports:

For the first time, the world is on the threshold of technology that would give a government the ability to follow anyone anywhere, and everyone everywhere. It could know exactly where you are going, where you have been and where you were yesterday as well. And this has profound potential ramifications for even just the fundamental civil liberties on which democratic societies rely.

Before we wake up and find that the year 2024 looks like the book “1984,” let’s figure out what kind of world we want to create, and what are the safeguards and what are the limitations of both companies and governments for the use of this technology.

And that sounds a lot like futurist Steve Brown, now that we think about it.

He says of his SecureWorld PLUS course on AI and Blockchain, "I will help you and your organization plan for these technologies to help you create the future you want to create and avoid creating the future you do not want to have."

Perhaps we should all be working on that.

In the meantime, try out AI Portraits. Upload a selfie and see what Artificial Intelligence sees in you.