How Does Deep Nostalgia Bring Alive People from the Past?

Artificial Intelligence or AI can do fascinating, and sometimes rather horrifying things. For instance, the DeepNude app undressed women for a fee and other Deep Fake videos can show people saying and doing things they never did. We now have Deep Nostalgia, an app that takes old pictures and ‘animates’ them; making long-dead people smile, move their heads etc. Check out some of the results including Bhagat Singh, Munshi Premchand and many others. 

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What if we could see the picture of someone long gone, like Marie Curie ‘move’? This app answers this question.

In colour and moving

The technology to colourise images and movies that were originally in monochrome has been used for many years. Add this and there you have a moving Charles Dickens in colour.

People are loving it

Trying out the app on old pictures of family members who were gone much before one was born can be fascinating indeed.

Even this!

And there you have it: the Mona Lisa ‘moving’ – probably for the first time ever!

And Rembrandt

The famous self-portrait of Rembrandt moves; infusing, as this tweet says, “the great masterpieces with the human spirit”.

Or Lucy

Probably the most famous human fossil ever, Lucy may have appeared like this.

Amusing

People are using the app for something like this as well.

An animated statue

Because why not!

Or scary

People like being scared, so they do this.

A little creepy?

Some felt that historical figures ‘coming to life’ can be a little creepy.

Also inspiring!

Seen here is a famous photo of Shaheed Bhagat Singh: now smiling, tilting the head and looking thoughtful.

Lokmanya Tilak

Tilak died in 1920 so finding a good quality image can be difficult as this tweet says, but the results are really interesting to say the least.

Munshi Premchand

One of India’s finest storytellers is animated by the Deep Nostalgia photo feature here.

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