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Lingelbach: Boundaries Between AI Intelligence and Rendering Models Will Disappear
“I think like with, when we're looking forward as to how the technology evolves, I think a lot of the lines between like what traditionally was like the intelligence portion of a model and what was traditionally the rendering portion of the model are going to g…”
Michael Lingelbach Aug 14, 2025 ▶ 10:41 Why AI Characters & Virtual Influencers Are the Next Frontier in Video ft Hedra’s Michael Lingelbach
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Lingelbach: Generative AI is moving toward monolithic omnimodal models
“Where I see the field going towards is monolithic omnimodal input, omnimodal output. Where you can provide guidance signals to how closely the model adheres to each of the input modalities.”
Michael Lingelbach Aug 14, 2025 ▶ 18:43 Why AI Characters & Virtual Influencers Are the Next Frontier in Video ft Hedra’s Michael Lingelbach
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Lingelbach: AI video will feature bidirectional communication and programmable personalities
“So in my, like, you know, future state, like, you should be able to have a subject in video that you can bidirectionally communicate with, that can follow cues, that has a distinct personality that you can program, and that creates, like, essentially the, you …”
Michael Lingelbach Aug 14, 2025 ▶ 9:16 Why AI Characters & Virtual Influencers Are the Next Frontier in Video ft Hedra’s Michael Lingelbach
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Lingelbach: Traditional text-to-video prompting will not remain the primary video AI paradigm
“I think that traditional prompt text to video is like very much not what the paradigm will look like.”
Michael Lingelbach Aug 14, 2025 ▶ 43:00 Why AI Characters & Virtual Influencers Are the Next Frontier in Video ft Hedra’s Michael Lingelbach
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Lingelbach: AI video creation will shift to autonomous content engines
“And I think in the same way, like we've seen this transition from like, you know, auto completion and code generation to now coding agents. I think we're going to see something very similar with content engines, and that's a lot of what we've been working on.”
Michael Lingelbach Aug 14, 2025 ▶ 43:39 Why AI Characters & Virtual Influencers Are the Next Frontier in Video ft Hedra’s Michael Lingelbach
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Lingelbach: Workflows for autonomous digital personas will proliferate
“I think we're going to start seeing more workflows around the creation of, like, these autonomous digital personas, not just for, like, real people, but also for, like, total fabricated personas as well.”
Michael Lingelbach Aug 14, 2025 ▶ 5:06 Why AI Characters & Virtual Influencers Are the Next Frontier in Video ft Hedra’s Michael Lingelbach
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Lingelbach: Low-cost interactive video will fundamentally change how people interact with LLMs
“When you're able to bring the cost of this technology down low enough, I think it actually is fundamentally going to change how people interact with these LLMs that are driving a lot of these new experiences.”
Michael Lingelbach Aug 14, 2025 ▶ 6:12 Why AI Characters & Virtual Influencers Are the Next Frontier in Video ft Hedra’s Michael Lingelbach
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