This weekend in Generative Media
AI hikes power costs; Face tech proves Hollywood diversity; AI in theater projections
News
As data centers for AI strain the power grid, bills rise for everyday customers (Washington Post)
Facial recognition technology confirms Hollywood is getting more diverse (phys.org)
Robert Downey Jr's Broadway debut 'McNeal' utilized Artificial Intelligence to create a theatrical immersive experience. Projection designer Jake Barton shows us how. (Mashable) [video essay]
a16z VC Martin Casado explains why so many AI regulations are so wrong (TechCrunch)
The Rise Of AI-Enabled Virtual Pets: Why Millions Are Raising Digital Companions (Forbes)
Software
Prime Video will let you summon AI to recap what you’re watching (The Verge)
Microsoft added AI to software it has barely touched since 1985. The results are astonishing (CNN)
How to use the latest AI video editing tools in Google Photos (The Verge)
Led by a founder who sold a video startup to Apple, Panjaya uses deepfake techniques to bite into video dubbing (TechCrunch)
AdaFace-Animate: Zero-Shot Subject-Driven Video Generation for Humans (HuggingFace)
Official Implementation of "ADOPT: Modified Adam Can Converge with Any β2 with the Optimal Rate" (GitHub)
Research
DimensionX: Create Any 3D and 4D Scenes from a Single Image with Controllable Video Diffusion (project page)
ReCapture: Generative Video Camera Controls for User-Provided Videos using Masked Video Fine-Tuning (project page)
SVDQuant: Absorbing Outliers by Low-Rank Components for 4-Bit Diffusion Models (project page)
SG-I2V: Self-Guided Trajectory Control in Image-to-Video Generation (project page)
NeuralClothSim: Neural Deformation Fields Meet the Thin Shell Theory (NeurIPS 2024 project page)