Hong Kong’s film industry is turning to AI to save time and money. Where do the humans come in?

Hong Kong’s film industry is turning to AI to save time and money. Where do the humans come in?

By creating realistic virtual locations, for example, there will be no need to fly actors and crew to different places, and audiences will not be able to tell the difference. There are other ways the new technology can work at various stages of making a film, right through to the tedious stage of post-production editing …

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Creators of Sora-powered short explain AI-generated video’s strengths and limitations

Creators of Sora-powered short explain AI-generated video’s strengths and limitations

Image Credits: Shy Kids OpenAI’s video generation tool Sora took the AI community by surprise in February with fluid, realistic video that seems miles ahead of competitors. But the carefully stage-managed debut left out a lot of details — details that have been filled in by a filmmaker given early access to create a short …

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Former Pixar Animator Gives One Big Reason AI Video Won’t Work in Hollywood

Former Pixar Animator Gives One Big Reason AI Video Won’t Work in Hollywood

AI-generated video has received a lot of hype lately as a tool that’s supposedly going to revolutionize Hollywood. But Craig Good, a former animator at Pixar who worked on classics like Toy Story and Finding Nemo, isn’t convinced. Good thinks there’s one big problem with AI video software that will immediately frustrate anyone working on …

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AI Detects Deepfake Video Fingerprints

AI Detects Deepfake Video Fingerprints

Summary: A new study highlights the challenges and advancements in detecting AI-generated videos. Researchers have found that traditional digital media detection methods falter against videos produced by AI, such as those created by the Sora generator from OpenAI. By employing a machine-learning algorithm, the team successfully identified unique digital “fingerprints” left by various AI video …

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OpenAI boss takes Sora tech to Hollywood, report claims

OpenAI boss takes Sora tech to Hollywood, report claims

OpenAI’s new text-to-video artificial intelligence model left jaws on the floor recently when the company offered up examples of what it can do. Sora, as it’s called, generates astonishingly realistic footage from descriptive text inputs, and while a close look can sometimes reveal slight flaws in the imagery, the technology has left many wondering to …

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Chinese Big Tech firms from Tencent to Kuaishou tout advancing generative AI models in race to catch up

Chinese Big Tech firms from Tencent to Kuaishou tout advancing generative AI models in race to catch up

The KwaiYii LLM from Kuaishou, a top Chinese short-video platform operator, has “significantly surpassed GPT-3.5 in overall performance … and is approaching the levels of GPT-4 in certain metrics”, said Cheng Yixiao, company founder and CEO, during its post-earnings call on Wednesday. 01:45 Chinese AI-generated cartoon series broadcast on state television Chinese AI-generated cartoon series …

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Chinese researchers hope to create ‘real AI scientists’ through ‘informed machine learning’

Chinese researchers hope to create ‘real AI scientists’ through ‘informed machine learning’

It has been widely praised for its advanced, realistic depictions of things and hailed as a massive step forward for generative AI, but the company has admitted it still struggles to simulate some aspects of the real world and cannot “accurately model the physics of many basic interactions, like glass shattering”. Sora is trained using …

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China’s ‘two sessions’ 2024: economic planning chief focuses on artificial intelligence ahead of key political gathering

China’s ‘two sessions’ 2024: economic planning chief focuses on artificial intelligence ahead of key political gathering

The head of China’s economic planning body made a tour of artificial intelligence firms and research institutes in the run-up to the annual meeting of the national legislature and top political advisory body, where technological development is expected to be high on the agenda. Zheng Shanjie, chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, “encouraged …

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OpenAI’s Sora pours ‘cold water’ on China’s AI dreams, as text-to-video advancements prompt more soul-searching

OpenAI’s Sora pours ‘cold water’ on China’s AI dreams, as text-to-video advancements prompt more soul-searching

Zhou Hongyi, the founder of Chinese internet security firm 360 Security Technology, which has joined China’s race to launch its own ChatGPT-style large language model, said the introduction of Sora was like a “barrel of cold water poured down China’s head”, Chinese media Yicai reported on Friday. “It cools down the heads of many people, …

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Chinese entrepreneurs express awe and fear of OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video generator, as US sanctions weigh on AI race

Chinese entrepreneurs express awe and fear of OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video generator, as US sanctions weigh on AI race

“I’d like to compare this to the Newton moment of AI development,” Yin said. Chinese smartphone vendors from Meizu to Oppo step up AI integration in devices Zhou Hongyi, chairman and CEO of 360 Security Technology, said on the microblogging site Weibo that the gap between China and the US in AI development “may be …

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