Today in Generative Media

AI in theater; Some employees support California AI bill; New AI model 'fraud' claims

News

• This Seattle theater company plans to use AI in its play (Seattle Times)

• OpenAI, Anthropic, Google employees come out in support of California AI bill (Fast Company)

• New open source AI leader Reflection 70B’s performance questioned, accused of ‘fraud’ (VentureBeat)

• James Earl Jones’ Darth Vader Has Already Been Immortalized With AI (Wired)

• Sims rival InZOI addresses concerns over its use of generative AI (PCGamesN)

• MI6 and CIA using generative AI to combat tech-driven threat actors (The Register)

• From Plato to AI: Are we losing our minds? (Resilience)

Software

• Apple’s Visual Intelligence is a built-in take on Google Lens (The Verge)

• ElevenLabs just launched a new AI-powered SFX library — this is a big deal (Tom’s Guid)

• Concept Sliders now support FLUX.1 models! (X)

• Superhuman Automated Forecasting (Center for AI Safety)

Research

• GS^3: Efficient Relighting with Triple Gaussian Splatting (SIGGRAPH Asia 2024, project page)

• Lagrangian Hashing for Compressed Neural Field Representations (project page)

• GS-ID: Illumination Decomposition on Gaussian Splatting via Diffusion Prior and Parametric Light Source Optimization (project page)

• Geometry Image Diffusion: Fast and Data-Efficient Text-to-3D with Image-Based Surface Representation (project page)

• Human-VDM: Learning Single-Image 3D Human Gaussian Splatting from Video Diffusion Models (project page)

• SlotLifter: Slot-guided Feature Lifting for Learning Object-centric Radiance Fields (project page)

• MERLiN: Single-Shot Material Estimation and Relighting for Photometric Stereo (arXiv)

• 3D-GP-LMVIC: Learning-based Multi-View Image Coding with 3D Gaussian Geometric Priors (arXiv)

• The AdEMAMix Optimizer: Better, Faster, Older (arXiv)

• We have increasing evidence that today's AIs can, indeed, generate novel ideas. This paper shows that the AI generates research ideas that are more novel and exciting (to other researchers!) than experts in the field, with no significant difference in the idea's feasibility. (X)

Misc

• Survivors of the Lahaina wildfires harness ImageFX to build “Postcards from the Future,” an activity that has inspired dialogue and planted seeds for renewal in their community (X)

• MagicSketch Interactive image editing Gradio app. (X)

• Drone footage of an iceberg in Iceland converted to a 3D Gaussian Splat. (X)

• Finally got around to really dig deeper into LivePortrait. (X)

• OpenAI preparing to drop their new model (X)