Portrait of the Portrait Sleuths
IEEE Spectrum · 2021
In 2011, Marc Andreessen famously wrote that software is eating the world. Nowadays, the globe is being devoured by a particular kind of software: deep learning, which allows machines to tackle tasks that a short time ago would have seemed inconceivable for a computer to handle, including driving cars and making medical diagnoses. Prepare to add another surprising feat to this list-identifying forged paintings.