Artist uses AI to show what rock stars would look like if they were still alive today

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artificial intelligence, we are now able to simulate what people would look like if they were much older—or even younger, in the case of ABBA's CGI world tour.One artist on Instagram named Hidreley Diao has taken a number of artificial intelligence apps and used them to produce spooky portraits of dead musicians to see what they would look like if they were still alive today.

The apps, which include 'Face Application' (face editor), Remini (to sharpen images), and Gradient (which lets you know which star you look like), all use combinations of AI tools to digitally age people.In one mock-up, you can see what Sid Vicious would look like if he were still alive—he would be 65 this year.Diao also made images of Janis Joplin, the famous singer of 'Pearl', who would be 78 years old today if she hadn't died at 27 from a heroin overdose in 1970.Meanwhile, the legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix resembles his contemporary Bob Dylan at age 79, having bought some wire-frame glasses and let his hair curl.Hendrix, who pioneered many of the modern guitar techniques used today, died at 27 after choking on his own vomit while drunk.

He had been experiencing poor health for some weeks prior to his death. Hendrix famously set fire to his guitars on-stage and could even perform guitar solos with his teeth, which he did at Woodstock Festival in 1969.Artificial intelligence is growing increasingly sophisticated.

In the case of 'face apps', these use huge datasets mapping human faces from thousands of different people. The AI is then 'trained' to recognise patterns in these huge datasets, such as how people of varying ages look different, and use this information to generate fresh new images.However, this technology has come under criticism.