Celebrity power couples don’t often last too long, but the magic of their romance sometimes has us wishing they could have had a fairy tale ending. Now, with the help of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, we can imagine a more idyllic future where the power couple stayed together and had children instead of publicly catastrophic splits. Here we have used StyleGAN, an AI computer vision algorithm, to prompt an AI to “imagine” what celebs’ adult children would have looked like all grown up.
Divorced and Never Had Kids
Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt
![Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston Kids](https://b807849.smushcdn.com/807849/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/A01_800px-2.png?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth
![Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth Child](https://b807849.smushcdn.com/807849/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/A02_800px-2.png?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey
![Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey Child](https://b807849.smushcdn.com/807849/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/A03_800px-2.png?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey
![Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey Child](https://b807849.smushcdn.com/807849/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/A04_800px-2.png?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux
![Jennifer Anniston and Justin Theroux Child](https://b807849.smushcdn.com/807849/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/A05_800px-3.png?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton
![Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton Child](https://b807849.smushcdn.com/807849/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/A08_800px-2.png?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Russell Brand and Katy Perry
![Russel Brand and Katy Perry Child](https://b807849.smushcdn.com/807849/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/A09_800px-2.png?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Broke Up and Never Had Kids
Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake
![Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake Child](https://b807849.smushcdn.com/807849/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/A010_800px-2.png?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Ben Affleck and J-Lo
![Ben Affleck and Jlo Child](https://b807849.smushcdn.com/807849/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/A011_800px-2.png?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Rihanna and Drake
![Rihanna and Drake Child](https://b807849.smushcdn.com/807849/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/A013_800px-2.png?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Kylie Jenner and Tyga
![Kylie Jenner and Tyga Child](https://b807849.smushcdn.com/807849/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/A012_800px-2.png?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson
![Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson Child](https://b807849.smushcdn.com/807849/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/A014_800px-2.png?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Demi Lovato and Joe Jonas
![Demi Lovato and Joe Jonas Child](https://b807849.smushcdn.com/807849/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/A015_800px-2.png?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner
![Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner Child](https://b807849.smushcdn.com/807849/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/A016_800px-2.png?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens
![Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens Child](https://b807849.smushcdn.com/807849/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/A017_800px-2.png?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Justin Beiber and Selena Gomez
![Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez Child](https://b807849.smushcdn.com/807849/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/A022_800px-3.png?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Fantasy Relationships
Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky
![Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky Child](https://b807849.smushcdn.com/807849/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/A018_800px-2.png?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet
![Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet Child](https://b807849.smushcdn.com/807849/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/A019_800px-2.png?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
The Office’s Pam and Jim
![The Office's Pam and Jim Child](https://b807849.smushcdn.com/807849/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/A020_800px-2.png?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
The Notebook – Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling
![The Notebooks Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling Child](https://b807849.smushcdn.com/807849/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/A021_800px-2.png?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga
![Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga Child](https://b807849.smushcdn.com/807849/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/A023_800px-2.png?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
Methodology
The “children” were imagined by an implementation of StyleGAN, a state-of-the-art AI that generates new images using Generative Adversarial Networks that compete to create increasingly realistic-appearing images that remain true to life.
The AI is made up of a generator network and a discriminator network. The generator network creates images, and the discriminator decides if that image is “real” (similar enough to real images it was trained on) or “fake.” This process continues in a loop, progressively creating more and more realistic “imagined” images.
Note: We did not develop the phenomenal algorithm used to generate these faces. The StyleGAN algorithm used to produce these images was developed by Tero Karras, Samuli Laine, and Timo Aila at NVIDIA, based on earlier work by Ian Goodfellow and colleagues on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs).