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Film Courage: Can we define what Generative AI is and how is it used?
Russell Palmer, Co-Founder of CyberFilm AI: When deep learning was invented several years ago and started this AI machine learning revolution, the biggest task it would do was prediction. I would say the two flavors of AI are prediction and generative.
For prediction, you would look at a large set of data and then say:
-Based on this or historical trend, predict how the stock market’s going to do?
Or
-What our earnings will be?
Or
-What’s the best direction to take on Google Maps?
Generative did evolve from prediction. How the language models work is basically you have a sentence and then it predicts what’s the next word over and over and over and that’s how ChatGPT writes. That’s really when things became generative. It really felt like it could now write and speak English and create original new things, not just predict the next number in a set but actually write an original poem or come up with a joke. Because of the way they work it can actually do completely original things.
I always think of Truman Burbank (one of my favorite movies The Truman Show) trying to recreate his lost lover’s face. He would cut a chin from one magazine and eyes from another and paste it together. But that’s not generative, that’s more combinational. I think really people started calling it Generative AI when it could create original new concepts and the same goes for the image generator. It doesn’t just try to take pieces of other people’s images and splice them together and smooth the edges, it starts from a whole bunch of random dots and noise and then it slowly works backwards and tries to change each dot. It does it all at once to create a whole new image and this is really what generative AI is about is it’s creating new things, text image and now video. I think it’s just going to get better and better and more interesting for sure.
Film Courage: What is Sora AI?
Russell: Sora is…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
About:
Russell Palmer is a technologist and Silicon Valley Product Manager with a background in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, having worked at companies including Microsoft, Viv Labs AI, Samsung Research AI, and JPMorgan’s AI Lab at Stanford Research Park. He co-founded the startup CyberFilm AI in 2021 with his brother Andrew, an indie writer/screenwriter/director/producer/actor, founder of Synapz Productions and an AD on Hollywood productions around Toronto, Vancouver, and Los Angeles (and WGC/DGC/CMPA member).
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