Matthias Niessner

Professor, Technical University of Munich · 1 appearance on the record.

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Nießner directs the Visual Computing Lab at TUM, focusing on 3D reconstruction, neural rendering, semantic scene understanding, and generative AI for digital humans. He is known for research projects like Face2Face and ScanNet, and for co-founding AI video generation unicorn Synthesia.

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Prediction Not checkable as stated
Niessner: AI will eventually generate full blockbuster movies directly from books
“In the long run, what I see is you basically can generate a whole movie or something like this from just a book, right? So you kind of, you're helping Hollywood in a sense creating fully featured blockbuster films just by looking at some texts.”
Matthias Niessner May 24, 2021 ▶ 23:26 Fireside Chat: Victor Riparbelli (Founder & CEO, Synthesia) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Niessner: Generative AI can create video virtually indistinguishable from reality
“Now there's a lot of new stuff coming that you can actually make not just images out of it, but you can actually create full videos out of it and can make these things look very, very realistic. You can create very high resolution videos and make them pretty m…”
Matthias Niessner May 24, 2021 ▶ 4:05 Fireside Chat: Victor Riparbelli (Founder & CEO, Synthesia) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Insight
Niessner: Using AI in a company is no longer a differentiator
“Like, you're not unique anymore when you're using AI in a company at this point, you actually Basically you have to use it just to compete with the massive scale of data and these kinds of things.”
Matthias Niessner May 24, 2021 ▶ 21:40 Fireside Chat: Victor Riparbelli (Founder & CEO, Synthesia) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)

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Disclosure
Synthesia shares data with major tech firms to build deepfake detectors
“Both Synthesia as a company and Matthias is working with a lot of the larger companies by sharing data and helping them with effort to build these sort of deep fake detection tools.”
Victor Riparbelli May 24, 2021 ▶ 18:05 Fireside Chat: Victor Riparbelli (Founder & CEO, Synthesia) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Fireside Chat: Victor Riparbelli (Founder & CEO, Synthesia) with Matt Turck (Partner, Firs May 24, 2021 5m
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