50 historical figures brought to life by AI

I was not expecting this to be as good as it was:

Seriously, this video nearly brought me to tears… and it’s not even past midnight yet! But I really should get to bed.

By Joe Vasicek

Joe Vasicek is the author of more than twenty science fiction books, including the Star Wanderers and Sons of the Starfarers series. As a young man, he studied Arabic and traveled across the Middle East and the Caucasus. He claims Utah as his home.

3 comments

  1. I’m about to cry . . . from the questionable clothing choices of at least half of those updated pictures. Whatever program they used, it doesn’t understand how clothing is put together, especially not how people wear leather. No one would wear a leather vest without an intermediary layer to protect their skin, especially not one with so many superfluous zippers.
    That doesn’t negate the cool factor of seeing famous people’s portraits updated, it just gives me an eye twitch of discontent. There’s actually a delightful YouTube channel called Royalty Now that also does recreations of famous people from history with a short history of their life and

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