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Using AI to transform anyone into a professional dancer might include using AI to process live video (webcam) of someone dancing and then giving them some feedback for improvement. In a word: coaching.
However this is using AI to produce composite videos of people dancing.
My kids would pay any amount of my money to play this as a game.
> Using NVIDIA TITAN Xp and GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GPUs, with the cuDNN-accelerated PyTorch deep learning framework for both training and inference > the team based their algorithm on the pix2pixHD architecture developed by NVIDIA researchers Is it me, or is NVIDIA trying very hard to take credit for this UC Berkeley paper? (they're almost taking credit for Pytorch as well). Sure, this kind of work wouldn't be possible…
How does that seem like taking credit? They aren't saying they're using NVIDIA hardware, they're saying it developed it from NVIDIA work, i.e. pix2pixHD, no? It also seems as UC Berkeley and NVIDIA collaborated on pix2pixHD, judging by the paper
They are, see quote above. They're also going out of their way to mention that Pytorch is using cuDNN, which is true but off-topic.
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I entirely agree with you. It's one thing for computers/AI to emulate the creative work that humans have already achieved, essentially copying, or porting, or manipulating prior art, but it's something else entirely to genuinely create something new and fresh and connects with people emotionally, and I have yet to see any evidence that AI is close to this.
Most modern art isn't made to great something new and fresh... it's mass produced pastoral stuff like Thomas Kinkade or connected to a multimedia franchise (book covers, movie posters, game art, etc.) and a lot of that is certainly formulaic and derivative. Maybe AI isn't able to copy human technique well enough yet but whether it succeeds or fails will have little to do with whether or not it creates work that reson…
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Are we really that far?
We ARE that far. Any deep fakes you see in the wild are the hobbyists applying the tech to the lowest common denominator. There are professional state sponsored groups creating serious fake video, easily manipulating presence of people at news worthy incidents.
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The autotune you refer to as "janky and fake" is when autotune is used with intention to create that sound as an artistic syle. Autotune is used across most pop (and other) music, but in such a way that that you never realise it is there. It is similar to special effects. People complain about how bad and fake they look, but this is only for the effects that are bad enough that they are noticible. People don't realis…
But similarly, it could be used as a "janky and fake" artistic syle. Because no one's ever seen it before, it will look wrong in unexpected ways, and therefore somewhat fascinating. Stylus noise, fret noise and mp3 compression artefacts are other "mistakes" deliberately introduced.
I think you’re onto something here as well about how it may well get adopted as a ‘style’ in someone’s music video.
The title seems poorly worded. Using AI to transform anyone into a professional dancer might include using AI to process live video (webcam) of someone dancing and then giving them some feedback for improvement. In a word: coaching. However this is using AI to produce composite videos of people dancing.
Meanwhile composite videos really blend in with all the augmented reality phone apps that teenagers use nowadays.
I'm half surprised there isn't already something like this for smartphones (with inferior quality).
I could see this being used in the same way that auto-tune type effects are added to singers voices. The editing of music videos could include a tool like this to make sure all of the dancers behind the main one are moving just right. And just like auto-tuned voices, it will come off as janky and fake.
Practically all singers use "pitch correction", which is essentially "autotune that's not done for artistic effect". If done properly, it's not really janky or fake sounding at all.
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Interesting! Do you have examples where it is possible to hear these unnatural overtones?
Pick up any modern pop record. Some are worse than others, but all are auto tuned. Just Google worst auto-tune for examples, because it's so common now, most people don't notice it. Here's a list of some examples: http://www.hometracked.com/2008/02/05/auto-tune-abuse-in-pop... Also, if you're not really musical you might have a hard time picking it out. I found that as soon as I learnt an instrument, songs suddenly b…