{"id":109438,"date":"2020-07-02T15:03:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T22:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/artist-uses-ai-to-create-stunning-realistic-portraits-of-historical-figures"},"modified":"2020-07-02T15:03:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T22:03:05","slug":"artist-uses-ai-to-create-stunning-realistic-portraits-of-historical-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/artist-uses-ai-to-create-stunning-realistic-portraits-of-historical-figures","title":{"rendered":"Artist uses AI to create stunning realistic portraits of historical figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artist-uses-ai-to-create-stunning-realistic-portraits-of-historical-figures.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is this artificial intelligence or a time machine?<\/p>\n<p>Bas Uterwijk, an Amsterdam-based artist, is using AI to create extremely lifelike photographs of historical figures and monuments such as the Statue of Liberty, artist Vincent van Gogh, George Washington and Queen Elizabeth I.<\/p>\n<p>Using a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artbreeder.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">program called Artbreeder<\/a>, which is described as \u201cdeep learning software,\u201d Uterwijk builds his photographs based on a compilation of portraits, reports the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-8479591\/Artist-uses-artificial-intelligence-reveal-famous-historical-figures-actually-looked-like.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Mail<\/a>. The program pinpoints common facial features and photograph qualities to produce an image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this artificial intelligence or a time machine? Bas Uterwijk, an Amsterdam-based artist, is using AI to create extremely lifelike photographs of historical figures and monuments such as the Statue of Liberty, artist Vincent van Gogh, George Washington and Queen Elizabeth I. Using a program called Artbreeder, which is described as \u201cdeep learning software,\u201d Uterwijk [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}