The year 2024 will be the beginning of a new reality in which fiction will be indistinguishable from reality, predicts blogger Roman Komiza. Already now, artificial intelligence can bring any image to life — for example, the Gioconda...
The connection with the real world will be lost and will gradually tend to zero. Starting from 2024. Of course, in that part and to the extent that you look at the world through the monitors of your devices: smartphones, computers and televisions. And we already consume the lion's share of information about events in the world precisely through devices, and every year we will only consume more of it. So you can already be ashamed to say "goodbye" to the good old "real world" and think about how to live in the new one.
Everything you see and hear may now not be real, but generated by artificial intelligence. It will be almost impossible to distinguish the real from the unreal. And this is the new reality we are now entering.
Here is EMO, a new development just introduced by the Institute for Intelligent Computing, Alibaba Group. Let me remind you that Alibaba is one of the largest Chinese public companies. China is generally very advanced in terms of AI.
EMO allows you to create portrait videos imitating human facial expressions based on sound. That is, you simply take the original image (any photo or picture), then add the sound of a voice: a conversation or a song. At the output, you get a video with expressive facial expressions and different head positions. At the same time, you can generate video avatars, create videos of any length depending on the length of the input audio.
