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Re: Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen

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Post by politelemon »

mihaaly wrote: post #27
ryandrake wrote: post #10

I'm making some big assumptions about Adobe's product ideation process, but: This seems like the "right" way to approach developing AI products: Find a user need that can't easily be solved with traditional methods and algorithms, decide that AI is appropriate for that thing, and then build an AI system to solve it. Rather than what many BigTech companies are currently doing: "Wall Street says we need to 'Use AI Some…

It is the 'make something for the user/client' vs. 'make something to sell' mindset. The latter one is what overwhelmingly more companies (not only BigTech, not at all!) adopted nowadays. And Boeing. ;)

And Boeing?

Re: Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen

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Post by porphyra »

I find that Adobe is really pulling away from open source software with all this AI stuff. A few years ago it could be argued that GIMP, Inkscape, and Darktable could do almost everything that Photoshop, Illustrator, and Lightroom could, albeit with a jankier user interface.

But now none of the open source software can compete with AI generative fill, AI denoising, and now AI rotation.

Re: Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen

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Post by xnx »

achow wrote: post #7

The source (Adobe MAX) 'demoes' full range of incredible scenarios.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfct0aH2COw

The video is much better than the linked page. The video shows the dynamic multi-angle character rotation and other object rotations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=63

Re: Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen

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Post by SoftTalker »

mywacaday wrote: post #6
CSMastermind wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Arguably non-artists benefit the most. This is a time saver for skilled artists but a whole new ability unlock for the unskilled ones.

I was going to write how this would be cool in a kids drawing app but the thought that they might never feel the need to draw something from a different angle. I wonder what other activities have been lost to time and technology.

Depends on whether the kid wants to learn to draw, or just wants to create drawings.

Re: Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen

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Post by SoftTalker »

CSMastermind wrote: post #4
jprd wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Completely agree. I thought this was going to be some underwhelming nonsense, but that is legit impressive and something even a non-artist could benefit from.

Arguably non-artists benefit the most. This is a time saver for skilled artists but a whole new ability unlock for the unskilled ones.

This is basically like taking your 2D drawing to an artist and saying "draw this for me from different angles." Only now the artist is a computer, and probably costs you a lot less than paying a real artist every time you want to do this.

Animators are even more out of a job I guess, but really have been for quite some time I think, almost no animation is entirely hand-drawn anymore.

Re: Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen

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Post by ceejayoz »

porphyra wrote: post #33

I find that Adobe is really pulling away from open source software with all this AI stuff. A few years ago it could be argued that GIMP, Inkscape, and Darktable could do almost everything that Photoshop, Illustrator, and Lightroom could, albeit with a jankier user interface. But now none of the open source software can compete with AI generative fill, AI denoising, and now AI rotation.

They'll probably be better able to compete once Adobe ups prices to reflect the actual cost of all that processing.

Re: Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen

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Post by eitally »

jthacker wrote: post #25
ryandrake wrote: post #10

I'm making some big assumptions about Adobe's product ideation process, but: This seems like the "right" way to approach developing AI products: Find a user need that can't easily be solved with traditional methods and algorithms, decide that AI is appropriate for that thing, and then build an AI system to solve it. Rather than what many BigTech companies are currently doing: "Wall Street says we need to 'Use AI Some…

This is certainly a great immediately useful tool but also a relatively small ROI, both the return and the investment. Big tech is aiming for a much bigger return on a clearly bigger investment. That’s going to potentially look like a lot of useless stuff in the meantime. Also, if it wasn’t for big tech and big investments, there wouldn’t even be these tools / models at this level of sophistication for others to be u…

On the plus side, for Adobe, is that they have a fairly stable & predictable SaaS revenue stream so as long as their R&D and product hosting costs don't exceed their subscription base, they're ok. This is wildly different from -- for example -- the hyperscalers, who have to build and invest far in advance of a market [for new services especially].

Re: Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen

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Post by ceejayoz »

mywacaday wrote: post #6
CSMastermind wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Arguably non-artists benefit the most. This is a time saver for skilled artists but a whole new ability unlock for the unskilled ones.

I was going to write how this would be cool in a kids drawing app but the thought that they might never feel the need to draw something from a different angle. I wonder what other activities have been lost to time and technology.

I'd love to see what this tool does with bad drawings, heh.

Re: Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen

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Post by allenu »

jampekka wrote: post #9
achow wrote: post #7

The source (Adobe MAX) 'demoes' full range of incredible scenarios.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfct0aH2COw

Not bad, but what's up with the audience? Is there an Adobe cult or something?

I'm not sure about this particular event, but companies often have employees who worked on the products in the crowd during launches to provide even more crowd noise.
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