Then & Now

If you use Google Photos you have seen this, particularly if you have kids. Since Google can recognize faces, they have some sort of algorithm that tries to find a picture of your child X years ago doing something similar to a recent picture of them. So every once in a while you get a notification with a cute “Then & Now” combination picture.

This is a pretty good example. If a human saw these two pictures separately, I’m not sure it would be clear that it’s the same kid. They are about seven years apart, with glasses and a bicycle helmet in the older picture. And the algorithm interpreted “climbing in a playground” and “sitting in fake dinosaur eggs at the zoo” as similar things. Which is a pretty fuzzy relationship for AI.

Makes a nice picture…