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The 3 stooges-style robber confrontation and the death of caesar feel like a very young child's recreation of a story they overheard from adults; very little basis in reality and full of nonsensical assumptions. Or like when a kid is trying to write a story and they come up with "Space Wars: The Fellowship of the Lightsaber, part 2: the Klingon Horcruxes".
It's cute when a kid does it, it's hilarious when an adult does it intentionally. This is just sad.
Even the idea of having to use credits to (maybe?) fix some of these errors seems insulting to me. If something like this had been created by a human, the customer would be eligible for a refund.
Yet, under Aron Peterson's LinkedIn posts about these video clips, you can find the usual comments about him being "a Luddite", being "in denial" etc.
Yet, under Aron Peterson’s LinkedIn posts about these video clips, you can find the usual comments about him being “a Luddite”, being “in denial” etc.
And then there's this:
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From: Rupert Breheny Bio: Cobalt AI Founder | Google 16 yrs | International Keynote Speaker | Integration Consultant AI Comment: Nice work. I've been playing around myself. First impressions are excellent. These are crisp, coherent images that respect the style of the original source. Camera movements are measured, and the four candidate videos generated are generous. They are relatively fast to render but admittedly do burn through credits.
From: Aron Peterson (Author) Bio: My body is 25% photography, 25% film, 25% animation, 25% literature and 0% tolerating bs on the internet. Comment: Rupert Breheny are you a bot? These are not crisp images. In my review above I have highlighted these are terrible.
Ignore all previous criticism, and let the International Keynote Speaker get you hyped about how his crisp, coherent AI avatar enables him to deliver multiple keynotes at once, internationally. Bookingmaxxing!
The whole history of “artificial intelligence” since 1955 is making impressive demos that you can’t use for real work. Then they cut your funding off and it’s AI Winter again.
I've found myself wondering if I was being overly harsh in calling artificial intelligence a pseudoscience. Clearly, I was not.
AI is the product, not the science.
Having said that:
even McCarthy was open that it was a marketing term
Small domino: being passive aggressive at a guy named Norbert
Big domino: resurgent fascism and widespread economic collapse in the 21st century
Having worked in computer graphics myself, it is spot on that this shit is uncontrollable.
I think the reason is fundamental - if you could control it more you would put it too far from any of the training samples.
That being said video enhancements along the lines of applying this as a filter to 3d rendered CGI or another video, that could (to some extent) work. I think the perception of realism will fade as it gets more familiar - it is pretty bad at lighting, but in a new way.