---
title: "This Website Will Generate an AI Portrait of You"
description: "A new online tool, \"AI Portraits\" takes a photo of your face and uses artificial intelligence to try and generate a realistic portrait."
date: "2018-11-07"
modified: "2018-11-07"
authors:
  - name: "Dan Robitzski"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/danrobitzski"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-portrait-art"
categories:
  - "Artificial Intelligence"
tags:
  - "ai"
  - "artificial intelligence"
  - "the digest"
---

# This Website Will Generate an AI Portrait of You

![A new online tool, "AI Portraits" takes a photo of your face and uses artificial intelligence to try and generate a realistic portrait.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ai-portrait-art.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Mauro Martino\</em\>*

## All AIs on Me

Have you ever wondered what facial recognition software sees when it registers your features and expressions?

While a true answer to that question gives artificial intelligence a bit too much credit — [it would have to be conscious](<https://futurism.com/artificial-consciousness>) in order to have a real opinion, so to speak, about your face — we can at least see how an algorithm would re-imagine your appearance.

## Caric(AI)ture Artist

[AI Portraits](<https://aiportraits.com/>) is a brand new website by [Mauro Martino](<http://www.mamartino.com/>), director of IBM’s Visual AI Lab, that lets people upload their photos and see how well Martino’s AI algorithm does at [creating a new digital painting](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-generated-portrait-christies>) of them.

The website uses what’s called a Generative-Adversarial Network (GAN), a type of neural net AI that constantly checks its own work [to create portraits](<https://futurism.com/contest-creative-robots-fine-art>) so similar to your likeness that it would recognize them as a second photo of you.

There were mixed results among Futurism staff, but the GAN did fairly well with my college graduation photo.

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/AI-portrait1-1200x542.png>)

## Celebrity Lookalike

The algorithm analyzed thousands of celebrities’ faces, specifically looking at their features. So if you have glasses or jewelry, the algorithm will re-imagine you without them. That might lead to some funky effects on your eyes.

Beyond being a neat little tool, the portrait’s blending of various celebrity faces could finally help you decide who would play you in the movie about your life.

***More AI-generated images: [A Work of AI-Generated art Just Sold for Vastly More Than Expected](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-generated-art-christies>)***

## Author
Dan Robitzki is a senior reporter for Futurism, where he likes to cover AI, tech ethics, and medicine. He spends his extra time fencing and streaming games from Los Angeles, California.

### Author social links  
[Twitter](<https://x.com/danrobitzski>)