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Tech Trailblazers: Getty Images’ AI lead Andrea Gagliano on storytelling and transparency
By Webb Wright
When Andrea Gagliano was studying machine learning (ML) in graduate school at the UC Berkeley School of Information, she decided she was going to use an AI model to generate images of all 44 US presidents – as women.
The final result, published to a fictitious Wikipedia page, is at times – like many instances of early AI-generated imagery – slightly unnerving. (The portrait of ‘Joan F. Kennedy‘ is particularly haunting.) But it also visualizes a fascinating historical counterfactual in a manner that forces the viewer to wonder, ‘What if?’
The project also foreshadowed what would become a recurring theme later in Gagliano’s career: that the real power of AI is to be found in its potential to help human beings envision alternative visions of the past, the present and the future...
Andrea Gagliano graduated from the MIMS program in 2017. She was named Getty Images’s Senior Director of AI/ML last October.
