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It’s wild that Aaron Swartz was aggressively prosecuted for scraping JSTOR articles. Meanwhile huge companies routinely scrape the public internet and sell it for $20/month and all is well. Aaron helped create RSS, Creative Commons, Markdown and a little site called Reddit (which now ironically sells its data to AI companies) - all by the age of 26. All he wanted was free and open access to information. Really makes you wonder the dent he’d have made on the world if he was still alive today.

The internet going wild with the microwave AI filter -- prolly because it's pure nightmare fuel 😭

So India has this app called blinkit where you can get literally anything delivered in 10 mins. My mind is blown.

peak internet: ai generated cctv footage of police arresting ppl for wearing huge boots video credit: u/Qemmish

Before/after of Corridor's latest AI video is wild. They shot video on greenscreen, made virtual sets in Unreal, then reskinned it to anime by finetuning Stable Diffusion. Net result? 120 VFX shots done by a team of 3 on a dime. Bravo! This is a milestone in creative technology🧵

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Midjourney v5 has pushed into photorealism, a goal which has eluded the computer graphics industry for decades (!) 🤯 Insane progression, and all that by 11 people with a shared dream. 🧵 Let's explore what these breakthrough in Generative AI mean for 3D & VFX as we know it...

Apple will make some gorgeous AR glasses — they literally squeezed a whole phone into a mf-ing camera bump.

"When you ask your stoned roommates to put away the groceries" 😭

OpenAI just dropped their Sora research paper. As expected, the video-to-video results are flipping spectacular 🪄 A few other gems:

Generative AI is super cool… BUT I’m continually blown away with the work happening in ‘procedural’ 3D modelling. Especially given these plugins are for a free (!) 3D tool like Blender. We needed a fancy Houdini license to do this just a few years ago 🤯

Generative AI is cool and all, but procedural 3D modeling just hits different. Check out this Houdini setup by Pepe Buendia. Why this is cool: Instead of manually placing every building and car, this system generates an NYC-style city that builds itself -- automatically spawning buildings with unique variations, plus a traffic system where cars actually obey traffic lights and avoid crashing into each other (all orchestrated through houdini VEX code). Each car knows exactly which road it's on and makes real-time decisions about navigation. The whole thing runs on custom algorithms that handle everything from road directions to building placement. If you did this with generative AI, even approaches to conditioning and taming the chaos -- you'd still get a ton of variance which might be an issue for visual and spatial consistency. To me this is procedural modeling at its finest - precise control meets infinite scalability. Immensely useful for media & entertainment, but also synthetic training data for robotics and augmented reality. I of course can't wait until multimodal LLMs to have the spatial understanding to write these kind of controllable 3D worlds for us. Claude counting 2D pixels on a screen is a step in this direction. Soon they'll be able to manipulate 2D ortho viewports, and eventually spawn procedural 3D worlds.

Generative ai is cool but procedural 3d generation just hits different. iCity basically feels like sim city for adults who know blender.

Damn it worked! Genie 3 world --> inpaint UI --> 4x topaz AI upscale --> train 3d gaussian splat You can step inside a painting of Socrates from 1787. Better than any image-to-3d model I've seen. I think Google has stumbled upon the killer app for VR -- the literal holodeck.

Google is now using Gemini to cross-reference ~250M places with Street View imagery to identify visible landmarks for turn-by-turn nav. Think iconic buildings, gas stations and restaurants. So instead of "turn right in 500 feet" you get "turn right after the Thai Siam Restaurant" with the landmark highlighted. AI solving the distance estimation problem by using what you can actually see. Rolling out in US.

So India has this app called blinkit where you can get literally anything delivered in 10 mins. My mind is blown.

Before/after of Corridor's latest AI video is wild. They shot video on greenscreen, made virtual sets in Unreal, then reskinned it to anime by finetuning Stable Diffusion. Net result? 120 VFX shots done by a team of 3 on a dime. Bravo! This is a milestone in creative technology🧵

peak internet: ai generated cctv footage of police arresting ppl for wearing huge boots video credit: u/Qemmish

Omg, AI videos on Douyin are a different breed. Chinese mom absolutely goes to town on a xenomorph 💀 And just when you think it’s over, it keeps escalating further:

Midjourney v5 has pushed into photorealism, a goal which has eluded the computer graphics industry for decades (!) 🤯 Insane progression, and all that by 11 people with a shared dream. 🧵 Let's explore what these breakthrough in Generative AI mean for 3D & VFX as we know it...

Everything here is 100% generated w/ Google Veo 2. I've got early access, and the visual fidelity and prompt adherence is genuinely nuts. Let's test it together and have some fun. Drop your prompts below -- and for the next hour or so I'll reply with videos 👇

Okay it happened! Snapchat Spectacles AR glasses. Fully standalone. 46 degree field of view. 37 pixels per degree. That’s roughly like a 100” TV screen! 2x snapdragon chips. 45 minutes of battery. Auto transitioning lenses. Designed for co-presence. Spectator mode and more. Gotta hand it to Snap for pushing on this extremely hard engineering challenge, despite the rest of their peers going VR first as a stepping stone to this ultimate vision.

We finally know what happened at OpenAI last year

❗EXCLUSIVE: "We learned about ChatGPT on Twitter." What REALLY happened at OpenAI? Former board member Helen Toner breaks her silence with shocking new details about Sam Altman's firing. Hear the exclusive, untold story on The TED AI Show. Here's just a sneak peek:

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We’re basically building the matrix inside the matrix, aren’t we?

Google is now using Gemini to cross-reference ~250M places with Street View imagery to identify visible landmarks for turn-by-turn nav. Think iconic buildings, gas stations and restaurants. So instead of "turn right in 500 feet" you get "turn right after the Thai Siam Restaurant" with the landmark highlighted. AI solving the distance estimation problem by using what you can actually see. Rolling out in US.

Q: "After doing AI for so long, what have you learned about humans?" Sam Altman: "I grew up implicitly thinking that intelligence was this, like really special human thing and kind of somewhat magical. And I now think that it's sort of a fundamental property of matter..." It's…

If y’all thought ppl were complaining about the port placement on the apple magic mouse, y’all ain’t seen nothing yet… I present to you the power button on the new mac mini:

Blender MCP is here, allowing Claude to talk directly to Blender. For example, provide a 2D reference image and ask Claude to create it in 3D for you.