This is a video of of The University of Tokyo’s Alter3 humanoid robot being fed text prompts by ChatGPT 4 to be acted out like in charades. It’s absolutely horrible at the game (okay, its snake and ghost were decent), and if you’re playing charades, you better hope ol’ Alter
This is an almost 100 year old clip from Los Angeles that’s been AI upscaled, enhanced, and colorized so it doesn’t look like it was filmed through a potato sack. I lived in LA for ten years, and I have to admit: I didn’t recognize any of it. Of course
Harnessing the power of ChatGPT, Boston Dynamics has turned one of their Spot quadruped robots into a talking tour guide, capable of providing tours of their facility with a variety of personalities, including a 1920’s archaeologist, Shakespearean actor, British butler, and bleak sarcastic guy “Josh”. All of the different personalities
This is a music video from There I Ruined It (previously), who used A.I. to emulate Anthony Kiedis’ and John Frusciante’s vocals for a performance of ‘Snow’ with lyrics reimagined to sound like what non-fans think the band is singing. I imagine even a few fans would acknowledge this is
Hot on the heels of that 1920’s footage of the Big Easy comes this footage of the roaring 20’s in New York City. Now I know what you’re all thinking — The Great Gatsby! And yes, this was the era of Art Deco, jazz, and flappers. But look at that
Using AI to reproduce the voice of David Attenborough, filmmaker Tommy Brennan created this nature documentary style video about the life of a house cat. I can never get enough David Attenborough, so even if was a computer generated him, I was hooked. TRUE STORY: I actually met David Attenborough
This is a clip of Nirvana’s January 11th, 1992 performance on SNL that’s been upscaled to 4K with the use of A.I. The episode also featured host Rob Morrow from Northern Exposure (my parents loved that show), and the band performs ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ and ‘Territorial Pissings’ before Grohl
In what he’s calling an all new musical genre dubbed Hanksta Rap, Dustin Ballard of Youtube channel There I Ruined It (previously) had Hank Williams perform N.W.A.’s ‘Straight Outta Compton’ with the help of artificial intelligence. I’m not gonna lie, it’s a banger, just like the original. Would I line