That article, and the related one about Miquela Sousa [1] now have me thinking in several directions.
1. How long before someone plugs in a GPT-3 backed chatbot to handle the comments for these virtual models? Eventually, AI powered voice synthesis, lip-sync and animation (helped by a kinematics model) will handle basic animation, to allow real-time chat with a "virtual model" who can walk and talk. This could be my big ticket to Internet fame and fortune!
2. And then someone will want to marry one, a la William Gibson's novel Idoru. It'll be a real fight when true AGIs are asking for equal rights. But how about before then when someone wants to extend rights to a fancy chatbot with an animation package that we know isn't sentient? Will forming a corporation help or hurt that effort?
Why do we even need all that? My exposure to modelling is what I see them modelling, typically garments or accessories. There's no dialogue in spoken or written form.
Software has getting/gotten extremely good at mimicry. Natural motion and facial expressions are in development. I really don't see these things as being that far off into the future where the human is just moving a mouse/hand to find the motion and expressions for a specific sequence. Video game avatars are the best indicator. If you go back 5, 10, 15 years and compare those to what we can do now then extrapolate 5-15 years.
1. How long before someone plugs in a GPT-3 backed chatbot to handle the comments for these virtual models? Eventually, AI powered voice synthesis, lip-sync and animation (helped by a kinematics model) will handle basic animation, to allow real-time chat with a "virtual model" who can walk and talk. This could be my big ticket to Internet fame and fortune!
2. And then someone will want to marry one, a la William Gibson's novel Idoru. It'll be a real fight when true AGIs are asking for equal rights. But how about before then when someone wants to extend rights to a fancy chatbot with an animation package that we know isn't sentient? Will forming a corporation help or hurt that effort?
We do live in interesting times.
[1] https://www.vogue.com/article/lilmiquela-miquela-sousa-insta...