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Fager 132's avatar

Looks like the knowledge of thylacines didn't get programmed into the AI.

My question as soon as I started reading was, "So when can I make the movie of my novel?" "In the near future" sounds pretty good. Several Instagram AI accounts I follow have started putting up short video clips in addition to their still images. A lot of the stills are incredibly lifelike, but the animation needs some work. AI seems to have a lot of trouble with human hands, especially, and often renders extra digits in both still and video images. One of the IG accounts uses a recurring character, and he'll post a series of 15 or so images of the character in a specific scenario. A lot of times the AI has trouble consistently getting the character's features right. About half the images are accurate for the character, but the rest are jarring to see because to a human it's immediately obvious that while they're very similar, they aren't the same person. Well, pretend person.

My hope is that as the technology advances the ability to detect it will advance, too. Computer technology is so far over my head that I can't even imagine how to approach the problem; the idea of reverse engineering probably isn't right, but I count on the ingenuity and anarchic tendencies of computer geeks to figure it out.

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David Kingsley, PhD's avatar

I realize that asking for extinct animals might be a bit of a stretch, but it seemed like a good challenge for AI.

You and I share similar questions—I’ve been wondering when AI will be able to create video companions for the articles I write. I’m betting it’ll happen sooner than we think. A lot of these publicly available AI tools seem to limit how much computational power you can access, for obvious reasons. As access improves, along with advancements in software and hardware, progress is bound to accelerate.

I’d be curious to see the IG account you mentioned. Would you mind sharing it?

As the technology improves, one would expect the images it generates to converge with what real digital photos look like. Once we can digitally generate images that are indistinguishable from real objects, how will we be able to tell what’s real? There will need to be some type of verification mechanism to determine authenticity.

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Nathan Slake's avatar

Fascinating/scary.

Do you think it'll ever get to being able to render in real-time with interactivity? I'm thinking of games here. I don't want that to ever replace curated artist-driven experiences, but as a concept it would be fascinating to see and try out.

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David Kingsley, PhD's avatar

As the computing behind these AI becomes more powerful, I'm sure it will feel close to real-time. Games seem like a fun application, both in terms of rendering a surrounding and animating the NPCs within the environment. I can imagine a game having a unique playable experience depending upon how players interaction with the world and AI-powered NPCs.

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Based If True's avatar

Looks like I won't be needing to make YouTube videos manually anymore, I can just ask Sora! Btw, there's an AI youtube epidemic in terms of them making fake videos. It's crazy.

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