At the ripe old age of 91, James Earl Jones has decided it’s time to retire and hand the job of voicing Darth Vader to AI technology to head off the possibility that Disney may replace him, as if that were possible. Ukrainian speech synthesis start-up Respeecher has already worked for Disney on the Star […]
Text-to-speech has been around for years, but quality limitations meant they were used primarily by voice assistants and chat bots. Developments in AI and deep learning now make it possible to create synthetic voices that have the prosody and pronunciation of human speech. Traditional voiceover and dubbing markets are predicated to generate a total of […]
A piece of art created by Midjourney has won first prize in the Colorado State Fair’s fine art competition. Théâtre D’opéra Spatial (Space Opera Theatre), in which three women in flowing red and white robes are seen in a large baroque hall, won in the digitally manipulated photography category. Edmond de Belamy, a blurry portrait […]
The TikTok account darkside.ai, run by Milan Jaram Creations, has posted a set of rather unnerving images of characters from The Simpsons as real people created using Midjourney. Elsewhere, dark side.ai has asked the generative AI art tool to produce what it thinks SpongeBob SquarePants and South Park characters would look like in real life […]
German neuroscientist Fabian Stelzer is in the process of making a 1970s-style science fiction film called ‘Salt’ using only generative AI art tools like DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney. Apart from his own, a tool called Murf produces all the voices you hear. With the aim of creating a “community cut”, Fabian has told […]
NVIDIA Instant NeRF (Neural Radiance Field), the company’s inverse rendering tool that turns a set of static images into a realistic 3D scene, has won the Best Paper award at SIGGRAPH 2022 which took place in Vancouver earlier this month. One of the best uses of Instant NeRF seen so far comes from San Francisco-based […]