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I find it interesting how much some of them resemble current famous people (for example, Augustus who resembles Putin with more hair). I wonder how much of that
by skykooler 6y ago
I find it interesting how much some of them resemble current famous people (for example, Augustus who resembles Putin with more hair). I wonder how much of that has to do with celebrities possibly being more represented in the training data?
- riffraff 6y agodon't be fooled: this is a photorealistic rendering of statues and coins. We have pretty precise images of Augustus, except for colors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus#/media/File:Statue-Augustus.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus#/media/File:Statue-Au...
- thaumasiotes 6y ago> We have pretty precise images of Augustus, except for colors. What? We have many statues of Augustus, but they are known not to be modeled on Augustus. Those are images of some other random guy.
- riffraff 6y agowhat I mean is: it's not some ml software that came up with a putinesque visage, it's just a recoloring of the statue, which already had that nose, oval cheekbones etc.