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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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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.

Having just watched the movie Upgrade I had something very different (and scarier) in my head...

Re: AI Can Transform Anyone Into a Professional Dancer

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post #25

Anyone want to get rich developing this for android /w me? haha

Can’t nvidia and the papers authors sue you or claim a takedown / charge licensing or something ?!? How is it legal for people to take cutting edge tech from universities for free and use it for their own software/profit?

Re: AI Can Transform Anyone Into a Professional Dancer

#143

I'm itching to make this. Would this be a good intro ML project for a solid software engineer (with a decently strong math background) or would it likely be far over my head? Seems like reverse engineering it from the paper would be tough, but maybe doable :p

it would be expensive in terms of hardware, you’d need to shell out for quite a few GPUs or else budget a lot for expensive cloud instances.

plus this is just a very complicated thing, in that it’s gluing together multiple new techniques to do various things.

some of the pieces that went into this work (like GANs) have lots of tutorials online and might be a more manageable, and budget-friendly, place to start. you could do something interesting on Google CoLab with free GPU time.

Re: AI Can Transform Anyone Into a Professional Dancer

#144

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.

An AI dance coach-as-a-service would be amazing and have a real impact!

Re: AI Can Transform Anyone Into a Professional Dancer

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post #53

We should think of something like a blockchain to mark all this sh*t as fake though, because in five years time there will be no way to distinguish reality from invention and we will all be under constant blackmail from malicious agents and rogue governments showing up at our door with whatever made-up accusation they want.

> blackmail from malicious agents and rogue governments showing up at our door with whatever made-up accusation they want.

I think the opposite. I believe that this will kill blackmail. Why care if someone has a leaked sex tape featuring you in an age where anyone can fake them. Simply say it's fake. In a few years, I bet there will be simply apps where you can point to a person's social network accounts and have the app generate whatever you want. Blackmail will die once everyone will have access to those videos with a few clicks.

Re: AI Can Transform Anyone Into a Professional Dancer

#146
post #25

Anyone want to get rich developing this for android /w me? haha

Can’t nvidia and the papers authors sue you or claim a takedown / charge licensing or something ?!? How is it legal for people to take cutting edge tech from universities for free and use it for their own software/profit?

same as it’s legal to use open source licensed software to profit. a lot of academics don’t care, and their work might be built very strongly on other work. there might or might not be a patent on this research, but I would guess probably not?

Re: AI Can Transform Anyone Into a Professional Dancer

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post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 aren't saying they're using NVIDIA hardware 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.

I think he meant that they aren't just saying that they're using NVIDIA hardware

Re: AI Can Transform Anyone Into a Professional Dancer

#150

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.

We actually kinda already have the first, in the form of the Dance Central games for the Kinect. You dance, the software detects which of your limbs aren't moving the right way, and it display visual feedback (highlighting the limb in red, reducing your score, etc) to show you what you're doing wrong, so you can perform the dance more correctly next time.

It's not good enough to produce professional dancers, but it has definitely improved my dancing as someone who just dances for fun.

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