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Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, unlike the natural intelligence displayed by humans and animals, which involves consciousness and emotionality. The distinction between the former and the latter categories is often revealed by the acronym chosen.

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Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/artificial_intel@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/18066953

On Tuesday, Microsoft Research Asia unveiled VASA-1, an AI model that can create a synchronized animated video of a person talking or singing from a single photo and an existing audio track. In the future, it could power virtual avatars that render locally and don't require video feeds—or allow anyone with similar tools to take a photo of a person found online and make them appear to say whatever they want.

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

For now you can tell. Next year you may not be able to.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Every month for the last year, they have made more progress in AI than they thought they'd make in the next couple of years combined, and the rate of progress is accelerating. It's coming much sooner than anyone thinks.