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Recently I’ve been playing with Generative Adversarial Networks<\/a>, which are a new flavour of neural network architecture which can be used to generate new representations from a corpus of data. That data can be images, speech, music, pretty much anything that can be represented as data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this case, I’m using a GAN to generate new images from a set of pictures.
I fed my network the mugshots of all current UK MPs<\/a>, in an attempt to find what the politicians of latent space might look like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Technically speaking, 649 images is way too few to get any decent generalisation. But for the purposes of art, the results are perfect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herewith, 32 algorithmically generated politicians:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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