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AI Can Transform Anyone Into a Professional Dancer

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Re: AI Can Transform Anyone Into a Professional Dancer

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Post by mc32 »

So this is a cool demo --and it has applications in cinema, MVs, etc. But, this is being presented as something which could allow Jane Q User to portray herself as an accomplished dancer --just transfer a style onto herself.

Maybe I'm in the minority, but I think if we take this idea and walk with it, it has the potential to trivialize actual accomplishment. Maybe I'm overthinking it.

Re: AI Can Transform Anyone Into a Professional Dancer

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Post by tuckermi »

mc32 wrote: post #2

So this is a cool demo --and it has applications in cinema, MVs, etc. But, this is being presented as something which could allow Jane Q User to portray herself as an accomplished dancer --just transfer a style onto herself. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I think if we take this idea and walk with it, it has the potential to trivialize actual accomplishment. Maybe I'm overthinking it.

I suspect you are overthinking it, or at least should acknowledge that one needs to take the idea and walk a long, long way!

But, with that said, this work is dependent on having a "source" that the user is using as an input for pose detection. The actual accomplishment must still be performed and recorded, though I suppose this opens the door to the dance equivalent of "lip syncing" even beyond what might be done today with a body double.

Re: AI Can Transform Anyone Into a Professional Dancer

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Post by codewithcheese »

mc32 wrote: post #2

So this is a cool demo --and it has applications in cinema, MVs, etc. But, this is being presented as something which could allow Jane Q User to portray herself as an accomplished dancer --just transfer a style onto herself. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I think if we take this idea and walk with it, it has the potential to trivialize actual accomplishment. Maybe I'm overthinking it.

Interesting thought. One upside might be people learn accomplishments are to be enjoyed as a personal achievement rather than requiring social acknowledgement to be validated.

Re: AI Can Transform Anyone Into a Professional Dancer

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Post by tuckermi »

tuckermi wrote: post #3
mc32 wrote: post #2

So this is a cool demo --and it has applications in cinema, MVs, etc. But, this is being presented as something which could allow Jane Q User to portray herself as an accomplished dancer --just transfer a style onto herself. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I think if we take this idea and walk with it, it has the potential to trivialize actual accomplishment. Maybe I'm overthinking it.

I suspect you are overthinking it, or at least should acknowledge that one needs to take the idea and walk a long, long way! But, with that said, this work is dependent on having a "source" that the user is using as an input for pose detection. The actual accomplishment must still be performed and recorded, though I suppose this opens the door to the dance equivalent of "lip syncing" even beyond what might be done to…

Or perhaps you don't even need a human at all, according to this work: https://medium.com/syncedreview/busting-moves-with-dancenet-...

Re: AI Can Transform Anyone Into a Professional Dancer

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Post by djsumdog »

mc32 wrote: post #2

So this is a cool demo --and it has applications in cinema, MVs, etc. But, this is being presented as something which could allow Jane Q User to portray herself as an accomplished dancer --just transfer a style onto herself. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I think if we take this idea and walk with it, it has the potential to trivialize actual accomplishment. Maybe I'm overthinking it.

I think that's all it's intended to be right? A cool demo. And it looks pretty amazing for what it is really.

We're not going to see The Running Man style/quality fake videos any time soon, and the media kinda runs with this an exaggerates; making people wonder if camera footage may one day no longer be considered evidence.

We're far from that. At the most, the quality of the transfers here is about the same as what you'd see with Deep Fakes (celebrities imposed on top of pornographic models using computer vision and AI algorithms).

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