AI creates what 'average person' looks like for each job and it's divided opinion
Is your job in there?
Featured Image Credit: Buzzfeed
Topics: Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Weird
Kit Roberts
Topics: Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Weird
AI has been causing a stir in recent months with its depictions of how various people might look.
And now technology has conjured up its take on the 'average person' in various job roles. Take a look:
Whether it's people from different countries, or an image of a 'beautiful' person, it's fair to say that some of the images generated as a result of this have been controversial.
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Now, another round of unusual images has come into the forefront after Buzzfeed instructed an AI model to put out images of people who do different jobs.
The results are certainly interesting - take a look to see if your line of work is featured below, or watch the video above to see the full set:
Accountants
Waiters
Baristas
Personal trainers
Chefs
Retail employees
Doctors
Real estate agents
Therapists
Fast food employees
Teachers
Firefighters
Flight attendants
Influencers
Nurses
News anchors
Morticians
Lawyers
Journalists
I feel duty bound to comment on the journalists, to confirm that yes all of us do indeed look exactly like the image here. Honest.
From predicting what every country will look like in the year 5,000 to creating an 'average person' in every US state, it feels like we're just at the beginning with the power of AI - something that'll no doubt be exciting to some, but utterly terrifying to others...