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I love this man’s enthusiasm for an innovative AI mocap techniqueWho’s a good AI, you are, you are
Who’s a good AI, you are, you are
I like neat AI stuff. The prospect of making machines autonomously clever (whatever that means) is a fundamentally exciting concept to me, even though there are plenty of ways in which AI is being and will be used to make people’s lives worse. I’m therefore a prime target for Two Minute Papers, a YouTube channel that takes interesting research papers and presents them with hyper-infectious enthusiasm.
Like I say, the actual tech is still mostly a mystery to me. I believe this has implications, meaning it may well become easier for small development teams to generate impressively believable animations without much work. I’ll let Dr Károly Zsolnai-Fehér take it from here.
Watch on YouTube
Watch on YouTube
The most interesting parts come towards the end, where he demonstrates how the AI can do a good job of modelling yer digi-bloke shooting even though it only looked at seven minutes of mo-capped footage for that particular action. A key point is that while other algorithms can handle “edge cases”, they need to be trained on huge amounts of data. So this is a massive increase in efficiency, and as mentioned, should be fairly generalisable. They swap to a snazzy looking dog towards the end, and I can confirm “that good boy IS pacing and running around beautifully”.
Honestly, my day has been brightened just from watching that - even if this somehow amounts to nothing.
I haven’t had a chance to poke around much else on the channel, but here’s an intriguing one about the arms racebetween AI deep fakes and AI deep fake detectors.
