AI-Synthesized Movies – Kevin’s Meandering Thoughts
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It’s the eighth day of the 12 Days of AI undertaking, and right now, the immediate has us wanting on the affordances, limitations and potentialities of AI-generated video content material. The location we’re exploring is Synthesia, which is seemingly geared in the direction of the enterprise world, and never schooling, and as I explored the positioning with a immediate to create a studying video, I needed to navigate parts of the enterprise world lexicon. I additionally realized, mid-way by way of, that the positioning works finest on Chrome or Edge, and never Firefox, however I used to be already knee-deep in it, so I saved going.
I made a decision to ask Synthesia to work on a video for me a couple of matter I’m instructing right now, in truth, as a part of our vocabulary lesson. The non-fiction textual content for right now’s lesson is all about silk works and the making of silk. So I uploaded the coed textual content as PDF and requested it create a video about silk worms for elementary college students.
Right here is the AI video it created:
I not too long ago tried Google’s AI Video platform (now embedded inside my Google Drive) and it was horrible on this exact same matter. The data was not fairly appropriate, and the stream of the interface and wording was so disjointed I deserted my efforts to make it work. Synthesia, however, is easy and appeared to do a reasonably first rate job of integrating the data I uploaded (about silk worms) into the video presentation.
I solely used the free model, so I couldn’t do a lot tinkering with the template (are you able to inform this can be a web site aimed toward companies?) and I used to be postpone a bit on the finish, because the AI lady presenter wraps issues up with a sultry voice misplaced with the remainder of the presentation. I cringed, a bit. At instances all through the video, you’ll be able to hear the voice being stitched collectively and a few of her expressions appear odd. However nonetheless, this can be a huge enchancment from the place issues have been only a 12 months in the past in AI video manufacturing, I might say.
I additionally notice that I’ve been seeing extra of those identical sorts of AI speaking head movies within the on-line world, and I think about some companies are going be all-in on this, creating AI coaching movies and AI advertising and marketing movies and extra, with out want for human editors or media staff, and the way unhappy is that? (I’ve to sons who’re within the film-making area and one other in public relations and I fear mightily for his or her futures).
So, will I share this with my sixth graders? Perhaps. We’ve been doing work round digital know-how of their lives and we simply did some work the opposite day exploring the position of Generative AI on the planet. They may be intrigued by this, and maybe convey a crucial lens to the manufacturing worth right here.
Peace (within the vid),
Kevin
