I forget where I heard it (might be a McLuhan thing), but any new medium/technology that comes out is initially used to produce the content of the old - so, movies recreated plays, TV recreated radio, internet recreated prior media forms - and it takes time for the medium to come into its own - for creators and practitioners to understand the new tool in its own light and to learn what they can do with it. I think ML is still in that space for creativity here - it's Much better at doing the old stuff, but we're not quite sure yet what the new stuff it does will look like.
Re:Runway – Create impossible video
by runawaybottle on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @09:40PM
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The second video was a real treat. I suppose next-gen consoles will need real AI chips.
Machine Learning is also genuinely making new things possible. Two Minute papers has a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Sojtv4gbg demonstrating a model that trains on driving footage, then adjusts video game footage to look almost indistinguishable from a real world shot (and in real time!). This is technically a video game application, but it's not hard to imagine how this could be used in a video or movie context.
The extent to which this site/software actually captures these broader trends is probably minimal, but they're definitely out there. I think we're on the edge of another huge shift, like the one where CG became more practical and down-to-earth so it could be used anywhere. A lot of the same stuff will be done, but by a couple of people rather than an army of editors.