SLA Sources Padlet by Xzavier Gallegos

Source 1 - New AI-video tool by maker of ChatGPT worries media creators

xgallegos — 2024-03-06 22:06:02 UTC

Source 2 - You can now talk to video game NPCs, and frankly it's incredible

xgallegos — 2024-03-06 22:06:26 UTC

Source 3 - SLA Source G (Leswing)

xgallegos — 2024-03-06 22:07:07 UTC

Source 4 - OpenAI’s impressive new Sora videos show it has serious sci-fi potential

xgallegos — 2024-03-06 22:07:42 UTC

xgallegos — 2024-03-06 22:11:48 UTC

Basile Simon, a former journalist and current Stanford University researcher, thinks there has been "a terrifying leap forward in the last year" when it comes to generative AI allowing realistic-looking fabrications to be rapidly produced.

xgallegos — 2024-03-06 22:14:50 UTC

"Creative genius" will no longer be limited by production skills thanks to generative AI tools, one enthusiast contended

xgallegos — 2024-03-06 22:15:25 UTC

Video game creators are equally likely to be impacted by the new invention, with reaction among the sector divided between those open to embracing a new tool and those fearing it might replace them. French video game giant Ubisoft hailed the OpenAI announcement as a "quantum leap forward" with the potential to let players and development teams express their imaginations.

Source 5 - I literally spoke with Nvidia’s AI-powered video game NPCs

xgallegos — 2024-03-06 22:17:27 UTC

Source 6 - ‘Video games are in for quite a trip’: How generative AI could radically reshape gaming

xgallegos — 2024-03-06 22:23:43 UTC

xgallegos — 2024-03-06 22:25:41 UTC

“It takes speech as input and generates body gesture as output, so we can imagine those NPCs expressing themselves with non-scripted dialogues, having almost natural body animation, synthesized from speech,

xgallegos — 2024-03-06 22:26:40 UTC

“This NPC, using deep learning, does not have a fixed pattern, so can have a greater variety of movements,” says Zhou, adding that smarter NPCs will make games more entertaining and challenging

xgallegos — 2024-03-06 22:28:15 UTC

Replica Studios recently introduced “AIpowered smart NPCs” for game engine giant Unreal Engine, which allows game developers to use AI to read NPC dialogue, rather than hiring a human voice actor.

xgallegos — 2024-03-06 22:29:01 UTC

However, one risk of usingAI-generated NPCs is that game designers could lose control of the game narrative

xgallegos — 2024-03-08 01:18:25 UTC

Last May, Nvidia and its partner Convai showed off a fairly unconvincing canned demo of such a system — but this January, I got to try a fully interactive version for myself at CES 2024. I walked away convinced we’ll inevitably see something like this in future games

xgallegos — 2024-03-08 01:18:59 UTC

: the characters I spoke to were effectively generative AI chatbots. They didn’t feel like real people — we’ve got a ways to go before voices, facial expressions, and body language catch up to what’s expected of a real-life interaction

xgallegos — 2024-03-08 01:20:24 UTC

e it could be used to populate a whole world with lesser characters or combined with good, canonical dialogue written by a real human being, where generative AI just helps it go further.

xgallegos — 2024-03-08 01:21:31 UTC

She also showed me how easy it was to inject new data. It took a single tap of a button to modify Jin and Nova’s memory with an additional text file, and suddenly, they were able to tell me about Nvidia’s new graphics cards. Another button press, and these characters could speak in a new language

xgallegos — 2024-03-08 01:27:02 UTC

Now look, this is clearly at an alpha stage. There's a ton that these characters do really badly. Facial animations in this tech demo are terrible. The voices are stilted and robotic to varying degrees

xgallegos — 2024-03-08 01:27:44 UTC

But you're absolutely speaking to a character, and it's absolutely delightful how these things stay faithful to their character no matter where you take the conversation

xgallegos — 2024-03-08 01:28:35 UTC

These conversational models really know how to dance. It's excellent fun, you can have surprisingly deep and rich conversations,

xgallegos — 2024-03-08 01:29:07 UTC

It immediately makes scripted dialogue options and cutscenes look like frustrating relics from the past

xgallegos — 2024-03-08 01:30:20 UTC

What's more, people have been coding these avatars into practical helpers – a preview of the way we'll soon be interacting with all our devices... These bots are frankly as helpful as you are good at making use of them.

xgallegos — 2024-03-08 01:58:56 UTC

Perhaps the broader worry with Sora, though, is how this might eventually displace, rather than assist, content creators

xgallegos — 2024-03-08 02:04:32 UTC

we’ll be seeing the cream of the crop of what Sora is capable of in these teasers, and there have been some buggy and weird efforts aired too.

xgallegos — 2024-03-08 02:05:35 UTC

Of course, AI can write a script as well, and so it begs the question: how long will it be before a blue alien is starring in an AI-generated post-apocalyptic drama

xgallegos — 2024-03-08 02:06:05 UTC

t’s worth underlining how fast things seem to be progressing with the capabilities of AI. Image creation powers were one thing – and extremely impressive in themselves – but this is entirely another

Thesis

xgallegos — 2024-03-08 21:13:49 UTC

AI has almost limitless potential but isn't quite where it can be and has a lot of room to grow still.

xgallegos — 2024-03-08 22:09:25 UTC

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used in generative AI tools, like ChatGPT or Google’s unreleased Bard, which can spit out blocks of text. Related models can create drawings or audio that resembles human output.

xgallegos — 2024-03-08 22:10:52 UTC

Companies developing this software say it will save hours of time and supercharge human creativity

xgallegos — 2024-03-08 22:11:48 UTC

But there have been issues with large language models, which can simply make information up, a phenomenon known as “hallucinating.” Both Google and Microsoft’s recent AI launches showed their software making factual errors.