Exclusive: Here’s what AI thinks these iconic ‘gone too soon’ celebrities, including Tupac, would look like if they had lived to be 80 years old – do YOU recognize them?

Rap legend Tupac Shakur, soulful English singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse and many other beloved, “once in a lifetime” talents were tragically robbed of their full lives to share their talents with the world.

But DailyMail.com wondered what some of these icons would have looked like had they lived out their golden years.

So we turned on image-making artificial intelligence (AI) Midjourney to help imagine what these stars might look like at age 80.

The results were unusual and strange, as would be expected from a machine that shows snapshots from an alternate dimension of what might have been.

Scroll down to see if you recognize these famous characters in their AI-induced aging. The results may surprise you.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac Shakur is remembered today for his poignant hits like “Changes” and “Dear Mama,” his social activism and the enduring mystery surrounding his motives for the 1996 murder.

Shakur was only 25 years old when he was shot four times in the chest on September 7, 1996 in Las Vegas. The rap icon died of complications from those wounds about a week later, on September 13.

Although decades have passed without any major developments regarding his death, Duane “Keefe D” Davis He was arrested Friday and charged with murder with a deadly weapon.

Amy bar

Amy Winehouse was 27 when she was found dead in her home in Camden, north London, the victim of acute alcohol poisoning.

The Grammy Award-winning artist behind “Back to Black,” “Stronger Than Me,” and “Rehab” has faced her demons through her pop art as well as through her own attempts to regain her sobriety.

Some who knew her blame it not only on the pressures of fame, but also on pressure exacerbated by the demands of her record company’s upper management.

As her childhood friend Tyler James explained in his harrowing account of the singer’s final weeks, he believes Winehouse’s managers played a dangerous role in her death, pressuring her to continue working while she battled her demons.

Would Winehouse have kept her iconic beehive updo, had she lived to become a grand dame of pop?

Midjourney seemed to think so, even as the AI ​​dramatically revised the tattoo on the singer’s sleeve.

Chris Farley

Sketch comedy legend Chris Farley was still in the process of transitioning from Saturday Night Live performer to comedy mainstay when a drug overdose took his life on December 18, 1997.

Farley was 33 years old.

DailyMail.com asked for a “realistic picture of what comedian Chris Farley would look like as an 80-year-old man”. Had he lived, Midjourney’s AI imagines the comedian would have retained his luster and hair color well into his 80s.

As a nod to NBC Studios, the request added “Radio City Music Hall” as “in the background behind him,” which apparently confused the AI ​​image maker into producing what looked like a generic New York background.

Heath Ledger

It’s been 15 years since Heath Ledger died at the age of 28 after an overdose.

While the actor who played the Joker in The Dark Knight and the cowboy in Brokeback Mountain was broadcasting his range as an actor, Ledger struggled with insomnia and anxiety in his final days, his friends and family said.

DailyMail.com requested a realistic, “artistic-looking” image of what “celebrity, actor and Knight’s Tale star Heath Ledger would look like as an 80-year-old man”.

Mr. Ledger, according to the prompt, should be “sitting in a convertible parked in Los Angeles at dusk.”

Midjourney’s AI-based technology allows images to be generated from simple text prompts.

Over the past year, there has been an increase in text-to-image generators amid the broader rise of generative AI, which supports software that creates text, sounds, or images based on the data it is fed.

Using technology, users enter prompts, ranging from simple tasks, such as drawing a dog, to silly tasks, such as presenting an object in an environment or shape in which it would not normally appear.

The program then creates the image in the form of a photorealistic photo or a professional painting.

This technology takes billions of images from all over the Internet, and identifies patterns between the image and the text words that accompany it.