When films are dubbed in another language, an actor’s facial movements may clash with his lines. Technology related to deepfakes can help smooth things over.
You talkin’ to me … in German?
New deepfake technology allows Robert De Niro to deliver his famous line from Taxi Driver in flawless German—with realistic lip movements and facial expressions. The AI software manipulates an actor’s lips and facial expressions to make them convincingly match the speech of someone speaking the same lines in a different language. The artificial-intelligence-based tech could reshape the movie industry, in both alluring and troubling ways. Read More
Daily Archives: May 20, 2021
‘Where the action is’: Vice Media Group now produces more Stories than text or video
Vice Media Group Cory Haik doesn’t want to call it a pivot.
But a new mobile app developed in house last year, called Stories Studio, has turned Vice Media Group’s feet, hips and eyes in the direction of more stories-style content, the mobile-native content format that can easily be distributed across platforms including TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Google and, for some reason, LinkedIn. Read More
Google’s Cinematic Moments is like Apple’s Live Photos — but a lot creepier
Google Photos will see several new features later this year — but some could be a bit creepier than others.
Arriving this summer, Cinematic Moments is a Google Photos tool that yields similar results to Apple’s Live Photos. The difference is that Cinematic Moments uses artificial intelligence (AI) to fill in the gaps of a few photos, rather than record short video, to produce in-motion media.
With a handful of still images, Cinematic Moments can create a complete and animated action shot. It uses neural networks to synthesize the moment, materializing frames from thin air, practically. Read More
MUM: A new AI milestone for understanding information
…People issue eight queries on average for complex tasks. Today’s search engines aren’t quite sophisticated enough to answer the way an expert would. But with a new technology called Multitask Unified Model, or MUM, we’re getting closer to helping you with these types of complex needs. So in the future, you’ll need fewer searches to get things done.
MUM has the potential to transform how Google helps you with complex tasks. Like BERT, MUM is built on a Transformer architecture, but it’s 1,000 times more powerful. MUM not only understands language, but also generates it. It’s trained across 75 different languages and many different tasks at once, allowing it to develop a more comprehensive understanding of information and world knowledge than previous models. And MUM is multimodal, so it understands information across text and images and, in the future, can expand to more modalities like video and audio. Read More
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