Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli was an Italian diplomat and philosopher. In fact, some have called him the father of modern political science. Uterwijk thinks the process of generative adversarial neural networks used to create this photo will succeed today’s photographic techniques. “These ‘Deep Learning’ networks are trained with thousands of photographs of human faces and are able to create near-photorealistic people from scratch or fit uploaded faces in a ‘Latent Space’ of a total of everything the model has learned,” he told Bored Panda.