The team has found a way to train Generative Adversarial Networks – a form of AI that pits a generator network against a discriminator network to create images or videos – that significantly speeds up the ETL (extract, transform, and load) pipeline “The key problem with small datasets is that the discriminator overfits to the […]
Nearly 70 percent of the world’s fastest supercomputers use NVIDIA technology, and they’re increasingly using AI to help researchers make discoveries faster. The world’s fastest supercomputers aren’t just faster than ever. They’re smarter and support a greater variety of workloads, too. Nearly 70 percent of the machines, including eight of the top 10, on the […]
Creating convincing human faces is one of the toughest tasks faced by 3D animators. At the recent (online) International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV 2020), Disney Research told attendees about the advances it has made on a Machine Learning-based tool that streamlines the process while taking into account all the subtleties of our facial expressions. […]
London’s Framestore is famous for so convincingly putting Sandra Bullock into space and settling a marmalade-loving bear in London. More recently, for an equestrian action sequences in Season 4 of The Crown, their VFX wizards have now turned their hand to replacing the face of a skilled equestrian with that of Erin Doherty, who plays […]
This Thanksgiving, HBO Max’s US audience is getting a new action comedy, Superintelligence, about what happens when an all-pervasive AI (voiced by James Corden) focuses on Ms Average (Melissa McCarthy) to help her to get her life in order, and into the bargain, maybe sort out some of the planet’s and society’s problems in the […]
How OpenAI’s Jukebox project is deepfaking Sinatra, Elvis, 2Pac and more OpenAI, which describes itself as a “research and deployment company” and which is the home of, amongst other things, GPT-3, is running a project that uses artificial intelligence to generate music, complete with lyrics, in a variety of genres and artist styles. Jukebox as […]