---
title: "This AI Shows What You’d Look Like as a Puppy"
description: "A new AI tool called PetSwap uses a deepfake algorithm to morph photos of animals, or humans, into a fluffy puppy or cute kitten."
date: "2019-05-20"
modified: "2019-06-06"
authors:
  - name: "Natalie Coleman"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/natalie"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/algorithm-deepfake-animal-photos"
categories:
  - "Artificial Intelligence"
tags:
  - "artificial intelligence"
  - "machine-vision"
  - "the digest"
---

# This AI Shows What You’d Look Like as a Puppy

![A new AI tool called PetSwap uses a deepfake algorithm to morph photos of animals, or humans, into a variety of species, like Animorphs.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/algorithm-deepfake-animal-photos.png>)
*\<em\>Image: Ming-Yu Liu via YouTube/Tag Hartman-Simkins\</em\>*

## Deepfake Doggos

We already have algorithms that can create pictures of people that [don't really exist](<https://futurism.com/ai-generates-entire-bodies-people-dont-exist>) and perfectly mirror the [voices of people](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-sounds-like-joe-rogan>) who do — and now there's an algorithm to turn you into fluffy dogs and cats.

A new [algorithmic tool](<https://nvlabs.github.io/FUNIT/petswap.html>) developed by Nvidia called "PetSwap" can take a photograph and morph its subject into a variety of dogs, cats, and other species*.* In other words, it can turn your portrait into a puppy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTu-U0C4xEU

## Good Boys

The algorithm behind the tool is called Few-shot UNsupervised Image-to-image Translation, or FUNIT, [according to *Vice*](<https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/nea737/face-swap-deepfake-pets-into-another-species-ai-tool-nvidia>). It relies on a generative adversarial network, or GAN, which is a type of AI typically used to [generate deepfakes](<https://futurism.com/mysterious-site-ai-realistic-horrifying-faces>) and train autonomous vehicles how to drive on potential road conditions.

Curious what you'd look like as the cover of an Animorphs novel? You can [test out the algorithm](<https://nvlabs.github.io/FUNIT/petswap.html>) yourself by uploading a selfie. People with glasses, beware — the results can be horrifyingly varied.

## Machine Vision

The tool may be fun to play with, but if algorithms like PetSwap could generalize more successfully from a small pool of new information, they could speed up the development of machine vision tech.

"Humans are remarkably good at generalization," explains [the paper](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.01723.pdf>) about the project. But for AI, generalizing from a few samples "based on prior knowledge is entirely beyond their reach."

**READ MORE:** [Turn Your Pet Into Another Species With This AI Tool](<https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/nea737/face-swap-deepfake-pets-into-another-species-ai-tool-nvidia>) \[VICE\]

**Read more on AI-generated deepfakes**: *[Amazing AI Generates Entire Bodies of People Who Don’t Exist](<https://futurism.com/ai-generates-entire-bodies-people-dont-exist>)*