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Microsoft’s research teams always makes some pretty crazy stuff. The problem with Microsoft is that they absolutely suck at translating their lab work into consumer products. Their labs publications are an amazing archive of shit that MS couldn’t get out the door properly or on time. Example - multitouch gesture UIs.
As interesting as this is, I’ll bet MS just ends up using some tech that Open AI launches before MS’s bureaucratic product team can get their shit together.
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Since it’s trained on celebrities, can it do ugly people or would it try to make them prettier in animation?
The teeth change sizes, which is kinda weird, but probably fixable.
It’s not too hard to notice for an up close face shot, but if it was farther away it might be hard - the intonation and facial expressions are spot on. They should use this to re-do all the digital faces in Star Wars.
One photo? That’s incredible.
Yeah. Incredibly horrific.
Yes I hate what AI is becoming capable of. Last year everyone was laughing at the shitty fingers, but were quickly moving past that. I'm concerned that in the near future it will be hard to tell truth from fiction.
Combine this with an LLM with speech-to-text input and we could create a talking paintings like in harry potter movies. Heck, hang it on a door and hook it with smart lock to recreate the dorm doors in harry potter and see if people can trick it to open the door.
I was actually discussing this very idea with my brother, who went to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios, Orrrlandooooo recently and while he enjoyed himself, said it felt like not much is new in theme parks nowadays. Adding in AI driven pictures you could actually talk to might spice it up.
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I like your optimism where this doesn't result in making everything worse.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Harry Potter wasn't a fantasy movie, it was a SciFi and we just didn't know it.
It was midichlorians all along.
You're a Jedi 'Arry!
Imma wot?
“At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus”
One use of this I'm in favour of is recreating Majel Barret's voice as an AI for computer systems.
This project doesn't recreate or simulate voices at all.
It takes a still photograph and created a lip synched video of that person saying the paired full audio clip.
There's other projects that simulate voices.
Yep it's part of it to generate the sound track
One of the videos show the voice changing in mid sentence
No, it isn't. In that clip they are taking two different sound clips as they are switching faces. It's not changing the 'voice' of saying some phrase on the fly. It's two separate pre-recorded clips.
Literally from the article:
It does not clone or simulate voices (like other Microsoft research) but relies on an existing audio input that could be specially recorded or spoken for a particular purpose.
Vasa? Like, the Swedish ship that sank 10 minutes after it was launched? Who named that project?
No, like the crispbread.
There are a lot of flying vehicles named after birds who famously plummet to the ground at breakneck speeds.
They developed an ai to name all future ai. Ironically it is unnamed.
Paranoia vibes starting in 3, 2, 1..
