Niessner: Generative AI can create video virtually indistinguishable from reality
Matthias Niessner · Fireside Chat: Victor Riparbelli (Founder & CEO, Synthesia) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark) · May 24, 2021 · at 4:05
Matthias Niessner, co-founder of Synthesia and computer vision researcher, discusses technical progress in generative AI video models during a May 2021 Data Driven NYC event.
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“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 much indistinguishable from any real videos.”
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