After a few months ago a group of researchers launched DALL-E, a tool that can create static images using keywords, now it is the scientists from Meta, the owner of Facebook, who present news.
It is a tool that promises to be controversial. It’s called Make-a-Video and with a simple sentence you can create animated images.
In other words, the user writes an idea, for example: “unicorns run on the beach” and the result is the following. The technology has the refinement of creating a slow-motion image, so that the effect is more epic.
Meta used “machine learning” techniques to develop Artificial Intelligence. A system that works in a similar way to the Dall-E platform, whose images have gone around the world.
Now Make-a-Video works the same way, but instead of still images, the result is animated videos.
Only resolution is missing.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg explains on the Meta blog that these videos are created “using a mix of natural language processing and neural networks that convert non-visual input into images.”
That’s what makes it possible to turn the phrase: “teddy bear painting a self-portrait” into this…
When Meta announced the creation of this new tool and the results it is capable of obtaining, the owner of Facebook explained that she will make the system available to other scientists so that they can develop it.
Meanwhile… “a spaceship lands on Mars.”
It is enough to look at the images above to realize that it is not necessary to have a very fertile imagination, to foresee scenarios in which this tool could be used in a nefarious way. Whether to spread lies, fake news, rumors, etc.
Even more so with the passage of time, and with the resolution of the videos getting better and better.
Now, it is to avoid this, says Meta, that the team of scientists who developed this tool decided that in the practice of “machine learning” no image or word whose content or meaning could be considered sensitive would be used.
Above you will find another video with other examples of what this technology is capable of. The phrases that brought them to life are easy enough to imagine.
Source: TSF
