Today in Generative Media

AI tools slash film costs; VFX pioneer talks AI; Will you lose your job to AI?

News

• AI Tools Can Slash Film Production Costs by 90%, Industry Leaders Say at TIFFCOM (Variety)

• Tokyo: VFX Pioneer George Murphy Talks AI, Virtual Production and the Future of Filmmaking (Hollywood Reporter)

• How to tell if you’re going to lose your job to AI, according to a computational neuroscientist (Fast Company)

• 'If you don't use AI you can't compete', Adobe VP tells me (Creative Bloq)

• Researchers disagree about the speed of gen AI adoption. But one thing’s clear: The tech is increasingly everywhere (Fortune)

Software

• Game-changing new AI tool can turn video into a 3D animation with CG characters (Creative Bloq)

• Freepik API uses Magnific.ai technology, now available as a comprehensive API service. (Freepik)

• Google’s AI system could change the way we write: InkSight turns handwritten notes digital (VentureBeat)

• The mysterious AI image generator that topped benchmarks is now available - here's how to try it (TechRadar)

  • Your imagination — powered by the best AI image generator (Recraft)

• MaskGCT TTS Demo (HuggingFace)

• SPZ: The open-source file format optimized for 3D Gaussian Splats (Scaniverse)

Research

• Epipolar-Free 3D Gaussian Splatting for Generalizable Novel View Synthesis (NeurIPS 2024 project page)

• Human Creativity in the Age of LLMs: Randomized Experiments on Divergent and Convergent Thinking (arXiv)