People complaining you can see the flaws in the reconstructed pictures are missing the point entirely. It's EXTREMELY hard for a software to get a picture with blank spots like that and try to fix those missing spots with something that looks like it fits. I think that for a better effect they shouldn't have shown the originals. You have to undestand that the software isn't using the original picture as a guide, it's literally just working with the messed up picture, and coming up with a fix based on that damaged picture alone. And it's a freaking software, not a thinking human being who can look at a picture and understand what it's supposed to look like (specially when you have the orignal for comparison). The results are truly outstanding. But maybe that's something that you can only truly appreciate if you work in the area and know how extremely hard this is to accomplish...

Everyone's all like "Nah, it looks way worse than the original image!", but they're missing the main point. It's SO CLOSE to the original image. So close that the faces look creepy, edging towards the uncanny valley. But the fact that's it's this close to the original is really awesome! The program doesn't edit the original image; it takes the whited-out version of the original image and fixes the broken picture. I think it's really neat!

Brialliant what modern tech can do

All the people asking what's the point of this... What if you have an amazing photo of your cat being adorable, but there's some dirty underwear in the background? How about a photo of your family at a picnic, but your ex is there... white them out and run it through this, and in seconds you have a replacement photo without them. The technology isn't perfect yet, but it's REALLY GOOD and will only get better.

The future

This reminds me of an old joke: A man comes to a store with a photograph of a cow. "I hear you can do these fantastic editing things now. This is the only picture I have of my great- grandmother, she is milking the cow, but as you can see, .she is hidden behind it. Could you remove the cow?

It's impressive but is the picture worth it for that result? In some cases a cloning tool and other methods in photoshop could bring a better result

It could have an application with spies, or police solving crimes.

Whoever upvotes this comment obviously is very smart and good looking.

No no no and no!

This Artificial Intelligence isn't particularly intelligent .