Snapping your own photos for Instagram may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a new A.I. tool Google Research is developing. It can create realistic selfies of a user trained off real images of that person.
The technology could eliminate the need for people to tediously pose and snap pictures of themselves in real life—or “generate endless selfies,” as Robert Wong, vice president of Google Creative Lab, put it. It could also have a huge impact on social media influencers, many of whom spend their days taking selfies of themselves in chic clothes and in trendy restaurants.
