Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Cinema virtual

A IA está a evoluir mais depressa do que se previa. Não vale a pena demonizá-la. Veio para ficar. Vai eliminar muitos postos de trabalho, e criar muitos outros. Sem a IA, a Ucrânia já teria sido esmagada pelos psicopatas russos de Moscovo. Uma das empresas que tem ajudado os ucranianos a combater os navios de guerra, aviões, ninhos de artilharia e infantaria da Rússia, chama-se Palantir. É norte americana. O seu co-fundador e CEO é um judeu americano chamado Alexander Caedmon Karp.


AI Can Now Replace Any Actor In A Film
Jim Clyde Monge
Jan 22, 2025

Lights, camera... algorithm?


The silver screen is no longer the exclusive domain of flesh-and-blood actors, all thanks to the recent advancements in AI. Nowadays, it’s remarkably easy to generate videos where actors do or say things they never did or take a film clip and replace the actor’s face with someone else’s.


Tencent’s open-source AI video generator, Hunyuan, has just integrated Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) support. With LoRA, you can train custom styles, characters, and movements, making your AI videos unique and personalised.


Hunyuan was launched in December 2024 and quickly impressed the AI community with its 95.7% visual quality score, outperforming many of its competitors. Now, with LORA integration, it’s even more powerful. This free, open-source AI video generator packs the punch of pricey options like OpenAI’s Sora, which can cost you as much as $200 per month.


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Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Democracy Maps

My future global human society model is Democracy Maps. It is a new hybrid reality built by social humans assisted by AI.


Given the United States' authoritarian drift, Europe must think quickly about developing its autonomy in cyberspace. The USA will have its own Internet, China already has its own, and Europe must create a proprietary one with original algorithms, namely developing European-based social networks and a European AI (EAI), with its ethics and culture different, as we know, from the American and Chinese ones.


As the joke goes, if China cuts off water to Macau, Macau must cut off water to China. 


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