“At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus”
Can we maybe stop making these? XD
This coming from the guy who turned himself into a fly for fun
It’s not his fault earth girls are easy.
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Like what even is a legitimate use case for these? It just seems tailor made for either misinformation or pointless memes, neither of which seem like a good sales pitch
I could see a few uses, but the biggest would probably be advertising. Tailored ads that look like they’re coming from a real person.
Imagine Jake from State Farm addressing you personally about your insurance in an ad.
Not that I endorse advertising, I’d like to see it all banned.
I think it could be useful to humanise some things though and talking to a “person” AI in a video call might be more comfortable for some people wanting to do tasks such as say navigate my mobile phone carriers shitty AI help system.
Really any sort of AI assistant device could benefit from a human imprint.
Imagine your dead relative selling you extended warranty for your vehicle.
Deepfakes are being used to personalize political messages in India, here’s a fun article on it which also points out an instance all the way back from 2020: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/20/deepfake-democracy-behind-the-ai-trickery-shaping-indias-2024-elections
It also mentions using deepfakes to target constituencies speaking different languages, to defame opposing parties, and even creating deepfakes to cast doubt on legitimate videos:
Ahead of the state election in November, the caller requested that Jadoun alter a problematic but authentic video of their candidate – whose party he did not disclose – to make a realistic deepfake. The aim: to claim that the original was a deepfake, and the deepfake the original.
In Australia they handed out fliers designed to look like an official government department, and targeted Chinese speaking communities who might not notice the difference.
Dodgy politicians will use anything, the solution is to go after them for doing it rather than focusing on the method because they’ll just find another method if they don’t get stopped.
I think you’re falling for the overblown fearmongering headline, and pointless memes is a great reason to make things.
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If they use the speech tech on top of it, you wouldn’t even know if you were talking to the person you think you are.
Avatars for ugly people who are good at games and want to get into streaming
Vasa? Like, the Swedish ship that sank 10 minutes after it was launched? Who named that project?
They developed an ai to name all future ai. Ironically it is unnamed.
No, like the crispbread.
These vids are just off enough that I think doing a bunch of mushrooms and watching them would be a deeply haunting experience
So essentially the music video for Drugs by Ratatat.
The first video her bottom teeth shift around.
Freddie, this is your mom. Look all I want for my birthday is for you to please start using teams new. It’s so much better than teams classic. I alread… Microsoft already installed it for you. Okay honey? And could you also start using a microsoft.com account so you can get financially hooked like all the Gmail users? It’s pretty smart. Don’t you want to be smart like Jonny? Tata!
This is why I don’t post my picture online and I never talk to anyone ever, while hiding my head inside a nylon stocking (unrelated).
I mean, I know it’s scary, but I’ll admit it is impressive, even when I watched it with jaded “every day is another AI breakthrough” exhaustion.
The subtle face movements, eyebrow expression, everything seems to correctly infer how the face would articulate those specific words. When you think of how many decades something like this would be in the uncanny valley even with a team of trained people hand -tweaking the image and video, and this is doing it better in nearly every way, automatically, with just an image? Insane.
It’s pretty wild that this is the tech being produced by the trillion dollar company who has already been granted a patent on creating digital resurrections of dead people from the data they left behind.
So we now already have LLMs that could take what you said and say new things that seem like what you would have said, take a voice sample of you and create new voice synthesis of that text where it sounds a lot like you were actually saying it, and can take a photo of you and make a video where you legit look like you are saying that voice sample with facial expressions and all.
And this could be done for anyone who has a social media profile with a few dozen text posts, a profile photo, and a 15 second sample of their voice.
I really don’t get how every single person isn’t just having a daily existential crisis questioning the nature of their present reality given what’s coming.
Do people just think the current trends aren’t going to continue, or just don’t think about the notion that what happens in the future could in fact have been their own nonlocal past?
It reminds me of a millennia old saying by a group that were claiming we were copies in the images of original humans: “you do not know how to examine the present moment.”
Edit - bonus saying on the topic: “When you see your likeness, you are happy. But when you see your images that came into being before you and that neither die nor become visible, how much you will have to bear!”
And you can run it on a single 4090, that’s crazy.
uh, are graphics cards supposed to be 2500 bucks? (I play boardgames)
Crypto did unfortunate things to the space.
What I don’t understand is why they didn’t go back down when crypto moved to proof of stake. Fuck AMD and Nvidia for price fixing.
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.
The “why would they make this” people don’t understand how important this type of research is. It’s important to show what’s possible so that we can be ready for it. There are many bad actors already pursuing similar tools if they don’t have them already. The worst case is being blindsided by something not seen before.
Paranoia vibes starting in 3, 2, 1…
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.
Feed it Microsoft Merlin. What will happen?
The pores don’t stretch, but the teeth and irises sure do!
I’m sure they will fix that before you know it.
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.
