Goodfellow’s work sparked a long line of projects that refined and expanded and challenged his big idea. Researchers at the University of Wyoming built a system that generated tiny but perfect images of insects,5 churches, volcanos, restaurants, canyons, and banquet halls. A team at Nvidia built a neural network that could ingest a photo of a summer day and turn it into the dead of winter.6 A group at the University of California–Berkeley designed a system that converted horses into zebras and Monets into van Goghs.7 They were among the most eye-catching and intriguing projects across both
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