Today in Generative Media
AI video battle: Sora, Runway, Pika; Surrealism in the AI Age; Synesthesia fuels AI art
AI video throwdown: OpenAI’s Sora vs. Runway and Pika (Ars Technica)
I'm using my synesthesia to create a new genre of AI art. The technology can 'read' my paintings and help me compose music. (Business Insider)
Surrealism in the Age of AI (ARTnews)
ChatGPT shows better moral judgment than a college undergrad (Ars Technica)
Drake pulls down AI-generated diss track after lawsuit threat from Tupac’s estate (Futurism)
FKA twigs Submits AI Testimony to U.S. Senate, Saying She’s Developing Her Own Deepfake (Pitchfork)
Lionel Wood, Art Director at Electric Square Malta, and Stephen Peacock, Head of Games AI at Keywords Studios present Project AVA at GDC 2024 our R&D case study covering the story of the team's foray into AI-powered video game development. (Keywords Studios) Direct link to video (Vimeo)
Three new resources to get started with generative AI (Google Workspace blog)
Transfer a material from an image to a subject (Replicate)
EMOPortraits: Emotion-enhanced Multimodal One-shot Head Avatars (CVPR 2024, project page)
High-quality Surface Reconstruction using Gaussian Surfels (SIGGRAPH 2024, project page)
GS-LRM: Large Reconstruction Model for 3D Gaussian Splatting (project page)
Lightplane: Highly-Scalable Components for Neural 3D Fields (project page)
Invisible Stitch: Generating Smooth 3D Scenes with Depth Inpainting (project page)