Here’s your AI astonishment/nightmare fuel for today:

"TL;DR: single portrait photo + speech audio = hyper-realistic talking face video with precise lip-audio sync, lifelike facial behavior, and naturalistic head movements, generated in real time.”

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/

VASA-1 - Microsoft Research

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@stroughtonsmith This is amazing! Imagine how this can revolutionise customer service.
I love this example so much 😂
@asol @stroughtonsmith you mean when the customers are also AI, because that’s how it all ends. Westworld. lol
@steveriggins @stroughtonsmith an agent to talk to an agent, agentception