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Probably couldn’t have chosen 2 worse people to demonstrate the range of human facial expressions
by brap 3y ago
Probably couldn’t have chosen 2 worse people to demonstrate the range of human facial expressions
- capableweb 3y agoIf you haven't gotten very far with the "photorealistic" part, maybe you couldn't have chosen 2 better people for the demo?
- patagonia 3y agoSuch a negative, ad hominem attack of a comment. The technology is breathtaking. The two people have each contributed so much.
- beepbooptheory 3y agoI thought Fridman was just a podcast guy? Not that that's quite nothing, but there are a lot of podcast guys.
- tinycombinator 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_Fridman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_Fridman Lex Fridman is a Russian-American computer scientist, podcaster, and writer. He is an artificial intelligence researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast, a podcast and YouTube series.
- kyawzazaw 3y agoThat's an inadequate description
- nradov 3y agoLex Fridman has also done original research on robotics and computer vision detection of facial expressions. Here is one of his papers; there are several others on related areas. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8751968/ https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8751968/
- jazzyjackson 3y agoFridman is a rabbit hole, you'll find detractors and defenders and slanderers. The debate has already been had so i'll just link it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32348302 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32348302
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agoit was a tongue-in-cheek joke referencing a meme. You were meant to chuckle at it, not take it seriously.
- matthewaveryusa 3y agoThey also made the same joke in the interview itself
- faitswulff 3y agoIt’s to be expected with beta products. Emotions have been on the Zuckerberg 1.0 roadmap since the beginning. I don’t know about Fridman, though.
- malux85 3y agoMark Zuckerberg testifying in congress reminds me of the Star Trek movie First Contact when Data was starting to feel anxious around the Borg, so he disabled his emotion chip.
- AnotherGoodName 3y agoHonestly though he handled that extremely well and made it backfire. Congressional hearings are purely for political grandstanding. The low height seat countered with a cushion, the dumb questions answered with direct unemotional answers. 'we sell ads senator'. The entire process had nothing come out of it except a few politicians had egg on their face.
- malux85 3y ago"Data, there are times when I envy you"
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- vagab0nd 3y agoSure, but from a technical point of view I don't think the range of human facial expressions is that wide anyway. It's just movements of muscles.
- brap 3y agoHi mark
- codetrotter 3y agoI Did Not Hit Her. I Did Not.
- tejohnso 3y agoIt's not a range test demo. It's a real conversation with real people who aren't prone to melodrama. As mentioned in the video by Lex, it's the subtleties that make all the difference. I'm astonished with the accuracy of the blinking, mouth movements, subtle cheek variations, etc. It seems more accurate than the realtime feed from my webcam. The only thing I wouldn't like about it is having to wear a headset in order to experience it.
- davesque 3y agoMy impression is that the device isn't able to track all of the face's subtle movements so the avatars come across as seeming relatively expressionless. For example, I noticed that Lex's and Mark's eyebrows don't seem to move as much as you might expect given the emotions communicated by their voices. I assume this is either because the device literally restricts the movements of the eyebrows (perhaps they're pressed down under the headband) or it just isn't able to track them that well.