[HN Gopher] 'Deep Nostalgia' can turn old photos of your relativ...
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'Deep Nostalgia' can turn old photos of your relatives into moving
videos
Author : DamnInteresting
Score : 135 points
Date : 2021-02-26 20:16 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| lostmsu wrote:
| This would also work for a scary room in amusement parks. Imagine
| Harry Potter-like photos of yourself + previous visitors
| screaming and trying to get out of the picture frame.
| withinboredom wrote:
| Check out my five minute old son looking around. Really weird.
|
| https://myhr.tg/1O7m77RK
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| And these articulated sunglasses.
|
| https://myhr.tg/1rX4Z8Xs
| hashingroll wrote:
| Interesting that the AI understands sunglasses but still
| "blinks" them like eyes.
| SammyNameTaken wrote:
| Is it really artificial intelligence and not facial
| recognition plus a series of image transforms
| ordu wrote:
| I would be just like Harry Potter, when it would be possible to
| print moving photos on a paper or a wall. With a sound
| preferably. I liked the idea of an moving image of Harry Potter
| repeatedly saying "Eat dung, Umbridge". Wouldn't it great to
| paint a graffiti saying obscene things to a passers-by? Then
| you could hide behind bushes and record a video how people
| react. Oh, and you could draw another graffiti which might
| answer to the first one. The city would become a different
| place, I'd stop using internet and start using reality again.
| It would be so much fun. Not for a long I expect, then morally
| wounded citizens would ban moving graffiti to make world boring
| again. But for a few years we could have a lot of fun. And then
| move to underground.
| axismundi wrote:
| Coming soon: generating your favorite movie starring you.
| dariosalvi78 wrote:
| just tried it with 3 or 4 pictures: some parts of the animation
| are convincing, but another good part is just too distorted, the
| tool fails to keep the shape of the head, the person becomes
| someone else. Good fun tho.
| TrackerFF wrote:
| A bit OT: But are any big studious (yet) applying some deep
| methodology to movie dubbing?
| finnh wrote:
| I can't be the only one who has thought that deep fakes + Cameo =
| moneymaker! Pitch the celebs "hey you can have 70% of the cameo
| money, but you don't have to lower yourself to _actually doing
| the cameo_". We'll just take the other 30% to pay actors to do it
| for you.
| pbhjpbhj wrote:
| I imagine when processing power doubles a few more times that
| we'll be able to do that in real time. Pick your movie, then
| pick which actors you want, use your Mii as the next James
| Bond, etc..
| minimaxir wrote:
| It would be in Cameo's interest to ban deepfakes preemptively
| (since devaluing actors, their _primary content creators_ ,
| would not be wise even moreso if they are unionized), and I'm
| honestly surprised they haven't already.
| black_puppydog wrote:
| I see the next wave of copyright suits coming already:
|
| > 30-odd geek sued for Billions for infringing on the "Brad
| Pitt" brand.
|
| Interesting times...
| mikestew wrote:
| Thought about it? There was a movie made along those lines:
|
| https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821641/
| breck wrote:
| The Prior-Units theorem states that if you can put an idea
| into words, there exists prior units in proportion to the
| utility of the idea (so there's an infinity of novel but
| useless ideas).
|
| Is there a variant of this along those lines but in regards
| to "someone made a movie about this"?
| lozaning wrote:
| 'Simpsons did it' is as close as I've got.
| granularity wrote:
| If you like bad movies, this one manages to be bad on a
| number of interesting dimensions at the same time. Highly
| recommended!
| gambiting wrote:
| Having read the book, I'm just amazed anyone could have
| read it and go "we should make a movie out of this!" And I
| love all of Lem's writing.
| atdt wrote:
| https://mashable.com/article/damian-lillard-hulu-deepfake-co...
| siavosh wrote:
| Pretty magical, my parents were amazed.
| markdown wrote:
| Doesn't seem to work on black faces, or faces with beards.
| dpoochieni wrote:
| I think they can train it for those customers or else it is an
| opportunity for an incumbent.
| mc32 wrote:
| Now take a recorded voice snippet of the same subject and have
| them say hello to you or happy birthday, etc.
| saurik wrote:
| If you are trying to make me cry, I think you are succeeding
| :(.
| haberman wrote:
| Black Mirror comes to life:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back
|
| > Martha Powell (Hayley Atwell) and Ash Starmer (Domhnall
| Gleeson) are a young couple who have moved to Ash's remote
| family house in the countryside. The day after moving in, Ash
| is killed while returning the hire van. At the funeral,
| Martha's friend Sarah (Sinead Matthews) talks about a new
| online service which helped her in a similar situation. Martha
| yells at her, but Sarah signs Martha up anyway. After
| discovering she is pregnant, Martha reluctantly tries it out.
| Using all of Ash's past online communications and social media
| profiles, the service creates a new virtual "Ash". Starting out
| with instant messaging, Martha uploads more videos and photos
| and begins to talk with the artificial Ash over the phone.
| Martha takes it on countryside walks, talking to it constantly
| while neglecting her sister's messages and calls.
| robotwizard wrote:
| came here to find this. This sort of animation is beyond the
| uncanny valley; far enough to wrench someone's heart who has
| lost someone see their dear one moving again. But alas, too
| removed from reality.
| agumonkey wrote:
| We're not far from Tom Cruise A.I. dinner party
| undefined1 wrote:
| next step is having them talk, like this deep fake where parents
| brought back their dead son:
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6I_wEetSck&t=30s
| jackcosgrove wrote:
| Deep nostalgia audio from the early twentieth century would all
| sound tinny like it came from a Victrola.
| michannne wrote:
| So freaking amazing how good the 3D depth perception is on that
| 3rd GIF. The right side of his hair is correctly obscured when he
| turns his head and even his eyelids move correctly. The only
| slight issue is his "lazy eye", but then you could argue the AI
| took a little creative liberty
| The_rationalist wrote:
| Off topic but if you missed it: Dall-e looks like a great advance
| in NLU: https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/
| kiba wrote:
| I am feeling scared more than amazed tbh.
| flycaliguy wrote:
| Yikes. It's a little scary to think I may have uploaded a photo
| of myself to Facebook without first reading the TOS and then
| consulting a futurologist to make sense of its implications.
| turbohz wrote:
| Imagine they use your appearance to sell insurance to your
| relatives...
| syntaxing wrote:
| Edit: Seems like its based off of something similar to this
| (https://github.com/AliaksandrSiarohin/first-order-model)
|
| This is pretty cool and eerie at the same time. The biggest thing
| to keep into mind about these algorithms is that the computer
| "dream" of these moving videos so they can be inaccurate.
| Nevertheless, seeing some moving video of my ancestors would be
| pretty neat.
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| ttul wrote:
| Alas, the image you see in your head is also a dream created by
| your brain's neural networks.
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| The_rationalist wrote:
| Except brain's neural network don't work the same way
| ghaff wrote:
| My understanding (happy to be proven incorrect) is that's
| still a matter of disagreement. AFAIK, the idea of the
| brain having feature detectors of various kinds remains a
| matter of research as it has been for decades.
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