Category: A.I.
AI and Machine Learning
Runway Multi Motion Brush to animate stills
https://runwayml.com/
Pika.art – an AI for creating videos from stills
“It converts simple text instructions into captivating videos, in seconds.
The story behind this AI is fascinating: A team of four engineers, led by Demi Guo and Chenlin Meng, was born with a clear vision: to transform video creation.
After raising $55 million, Pika Labs initially focused on Japanese anime-style animations before expanding into 3D animation”
3D Gaussian Splatting step by step beginner course
https://www.reshot.ai/3d-gaussian-splatting
what are 3D Gaussians? They are a generalization of 1D Gaussians (the bell curve) to 3D. Essentially they are ellipsoids in 3D space, with a center, a scale, a rotation, and “softened edges”.
Each 3D Gaussian is optimized along with a (viewdependant) color and opacity. When blended together, here’s the visualization of the full model, rendered from ANY angle. As you can see, 3D Gaussian Splatting captures extremely well the fuzzy and soft nature of the plush toy, something that photogrammetry-based methods struggle to do.
https://towardsdatascience.com/a-comprehensive-overview-of-gaussian-splatting-e7d570081362
Midjourney v6 beta released
Rory Flynn – Usage examples (Large PDF)
Download link
https://pixelshame.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/MidJourney6.pdf
Copyright-related challenges
Sports Illustrated published articles under fake author names and AI-generated profile photos
The magazine had repeatedly published articles whose authors could not be found online outside the Sports Illustrated website.
During the course of Futurism’s reporting, some of the alleged Sports Illustrated writers mysteriously vanished from the publication’s website — and their articles began appearing under the names of different authors who similarly didn’t appear to exist online and whose likenesses were also being sold on AI headshot marketplaces.
Following the publication of the report, a spokesperson for The Arena Group — which has operated and licensed Sports Illustrated since 2019 — told CNN that the deleted product review articles had been created by a third-party company, AdVon Commerce.
Convert 2D Images to 3D Models
- Vectary – free and monthly fees, web based
- Selva3D – pay per use
- 3D-Tool – one off payment
- Insight3d – free and open-source
- ItsLitho – free, web based
- Blender – free
- SculptGL – free, web based
- Embossify – pay per use, web based
- Smoothie-3D – free, web based
- ZW3D – one off payment
- ImageToSTL – free, web based
- Alpha3D – First 50 AI-generated 3D assets free
- Reliefmod – free, web based
- 3D Builder – free
- Cube by CSM.ai – web based
- Kaedim3D – monthly and pay per use fees
- 3DForPrint – free, web based
- ZoeDepth – free, web based
- DreamGaussian – free, web based
- Photoshop Neural Filters – monthly fees
https://www.rankred.com/convert-2d-images-to-3d/
Elevenlabs AI Speech to Speech Converter
https://elevenlabs.io/voice-changer
Transform your voice into another character and control its emotion and delivery.
How OpenAI so royally screwed up the Sam Altman firing and joining Microsoft
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/19/tech/sam-altman-open-ai-firing-board/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/18/tech/openai-sam-altman-shakeup-what-happened/index.html
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/20/tech/sam-altman-joins-microsoft/index.html
A company’s board of directors has an obligation, first and foremost, to its shareholders. OpenAI’s most important shareholder is Microsoft, the company that gave Altman & Co. $13 billion to help Bing, Office, Windows and Azure leapfrog Google and stay ahead of Amazon, IBM and other AI wannabes.
So a day later, the board reportedly asked for a mulligan and tried to woo Altman back. It was a shocking turn of events and an embarrassing self-own by a company that its widely regarded as the most promising producer of the most exciting new technology.
The board angered a powerful ally and could be forever changed because of the way it handled Altman’s ouster. It could end up with Altman back at the helm, a for-profit company on its nonprofit board – and a massive culture shift at OpenAI.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67474879
But Microsoft, OpenAI’s biggest investor, has decided not to take a chance on Mr Altman taking this tech elsewhere. He will be joining the Seattle-based tech giant, it has been announced, to lead a yet-to-be-created AI research team. His co-founder Greg Brockman goes with him, and judging from the number of staff members posting on X today, it looks like he’ll be taking some of OpenAI’s top talent too.
Many OpenAI staff members are sharing the same post on X. It reads: “OpenAI is nothing without its people”.
Is that a warning to Mr Shear that he might have some hiring to do? A BBC colleague outside OpenAI’s headquarters just told me at 0930 in San Francisco, there were no signs of people arriving for work.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/20/tech/openai-employees-quit-mira-murati-sam-altman/index.html
“Your actions have made it obvious that you are incapable of overseeing OpenAI,” wrote the employees. “We are unable to work for or with people that lack competence, judgement and care for our mission and employees.”
The employees also warned that they would “imminently” follow Altman to Microsoft unless the board resigns and reinstates Altman and Greg Brockman, the former OpenAI president who was also removed by the board on Friday.
VR-NeRF: High-Fidelity Virtualized Walkable Spaces
An end-to-end system for the high-fidelity capture, model reconstruction, and real-time rendering of walkable spaces in virtual reality using neural radiance fields.
Photorealistic AI Pocket Guide
Prompt Example:
“editorial cinematic, Ibiza aesthetic, a man wearing a brown t-shirt, hero-view, fashion photography, medium-shot, detailed, Sony A7 IV, 100mm, muted colors –ar 21:9 –c 10 –v 5.2 –style raw”
AnimateDiff + ControlNet examples
Created by @qstone75
