The AI ​​tool “Deep Nostalgia” allows you to resuscitate your deceased loved ones

To finish! One way to make old family photos even more spooky

Animate the dead

Have you ever looked at old family photos and thought, “These just aren’t scary enough!” or “I wish these were more like the characters in The Polar Express,” perhaps? Now they can! Get this: An online genealogy platform has developed an AI that lets you animate old family photos.

The MyHeritage genealogy website introduced a tool called Deep Nostalgia that harnesses AI technology to animate old photographs of dead (or living) relatives.

For example, here are the weird results of what happened when we used the tool on a face you might recognize, US President # 16 Abe Lincoln:

Deep nostalgia

The AI ​​that Deep Nostalgia uses to achieve these animations is much like the ones used in Deep Fakes.

Once you upload the photo to MyHeritage, it is then processed through Deep Nostalgia and animated based on a set of gestures and motions previously recorded by a model.

And yes, you can animate multiple faces in a photo at a time.

Scary or magical?

MyHeritage readily admits that the new tool can potentially be polarizing.

“Some people love the Deep Nostalgia feature and find it magical,” MyHeritage says on the Deep Nostalgia webpage, “while others find it scary and don’t like it. Indeed, the results can be controversial and it is difficult to remain indifferent to this technology.

So, while this tool is easy to laugh at, it is undeniably a compelling and compelling application of AI, not to mention the fact that it can allow many people to reconnect with their loved ones. for a long time thanks to technology, which is always fantastic.

But also, you can do weird stuff like that.