Artificial intelligence has seen huge advances in recent years, with notable achievements like computers being able to compete with humans at the notoriously difficult to master ancient game of go, self-driving cars, and voice recognition in your pocket.
Even more recently, a new architecture emerged that led to spectacular results for generated images. The faces at this link are not real, they were created by a generative network - [ https://tinyurl.com/y6c6u5k2 ].
In October 2018, the world-leading art auction house Christies sold the Portrait of Edmond Belamy for $432,500 - [ https://tinyurl.com/y5zjqjn3 ].
That portrait was not painted by a person, but a generative neural network trained using an adversarial machine learning architecture.
