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Google DeepMind. Machine learning and creativity. Veo, Phenaki.

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@hhm
Hernan Moraldo
2 days
Proud to be part of the incredible talented team that delivered Veo 3! State of the art video and sound generation, including music, dialogue, and more. You can already use it in Gemini, Flow, and Cloud Vertex API.
@GoogleDeepMind
Google DeepMind
2 days
Video, meet audio. 🎥🤝🔊. With Veo 3, our new state-of-the-art generative video model, you can add soundtracks to clips you make. Create talking characters, include sound effects, and more while developing videos in a range of cinematic styles. 🧵
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Hernan Moraldo
5 months
Action scenes (with realistic physics!) with Veo! #veo2. Prompt: "Car going at top speed through a road, until reaching a waterfall. It gets into the waterfall and jumps off a mountain. Cinematic, 35mm film."
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Hernan Moraldo
5 months
Prompt: "Bear writing the solution to 2x-1=0. But only the solution!"
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Hernan Moraldo
3 years
Muchas gracias a vos Jaime por el recuerdo! Fue una increíble sorpresa. Sí, esa letra y dibujos son definitivamente míos, y no han cambiado mucho desde entonces.
@JaimeObregon
Jaime Gómez-Obregón
3 years
Amigo Hernán: ¡cuánto te agradezco aquellas palabras que conservo en el cofre del tesoro!. Si algún padre me lee: echad toda la leña a la lumbre de la curiosidad de vuestros hijos. ¡Que la vida no extinga ese fuego, esa ansia juvenil de querer saber más!.
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Hernan Moraldo
5 months
Veo v2 generates a meeting of animals #Veo2 . Prompt: A meeting of a lion, a bear and a giraffe, all of them wearing suits. Photorealistic, cinematic.
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Hernan Moraldo
5 months
More Veo 2 examples. Prompt: "A cat wearing a suit and a top hat, while driving a tractor. The tractor has lots of hay on top. Cinematic."
@GoogleDeepMind
Google DeepMind
5 months
Veo 2 is able to:.▪️ Create videos at resolutions up to 4k.▪️ Understand camera controls in prompts, such as wide shot, POV and drone shots.▪️ Better recreate real-world physics and realistic human expression. In head-to-head comparisons of outputs by human raters, it was
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Hernan Moraldo
5 months
More Veo physics #Veo2 . Prompt: "A large iron ball falls on top of a cardboard box full of coins."
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Hernan Moraldo
5 months
Physics with Veo! #veo2. Prompt: One ball is in the floor. Another ball comes rolling.
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Hernan Moraldo
5 months
Soccer from the future, according to Veo 2 #veo2
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Hernan Moraldo
5 months
Prompt: Snail riding a bicycle. The snail has a large moustache.
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@hhm
Hernan Moraldo
5 months
A similar example #veo2. Prompt: A tennis ball is on the floor. A bowling ball comes rolling.
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Hernan Moraldo
9 months
@RyanHouchin @QiaochuYuan The main thing is you never see the colors of the Milky Way with the naked eye. It looks like a dim cloud, but it's huge, and very impressive if you know what you are looking at. But most people living in areas with skies that clear don't ever realize what it is.
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Hernan Moraldo
3 years
Así que gracias por publicar tus juegos también! :D. Me resulta muy familiar el nombre Arkaful, tenés algún screenshot?.
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Hernan Moraldo
3 years
Por esos tiempos no tenía acceso a internet (que recuerde), así que el material de revistas como ésa me resultaba muy preciado. Pero sobre todo, encontrar personas de edad cercana a la mía que desarrollaban juegos me resultaba muy inspirador y me impulsaba a seguir aprendiendo.
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Hernan Moraldo
1 year
So excited to share Veo! Incredible work by an amazing team!.
@GoogleDeepMind
Google DeepMind
1 year
Introducing Veo: our most capable generative video model. 🎥. It can create high-quality, 1080p clips that can go beyond 60 seconds. From photorealism to surrealism and animation, it can tackle a range of cinematic styles. 🧵 #GoogleIO
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Hernan Moraldo
5 months
Proud to see the release of Veo v2!!.
@GoogleDeepMind
Google DeepMind
5 months
Today, we’re announcing Veo 2: our state-of-the-art video generation model which produces realistic, high-quality clips from text or image prompts. 🎥. We’re also releasing an improved version of our text-to-image model, Imagen 3 - available to use in ImageFX through
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Hernan Moraldo
5 months
More Veo 2 examples. Prompt: "A snail wearing pants. The snail is riding a bicycle, and has a large moustache." #veo2. Following a comment by @thelokasiffers
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Hernan Moraldo
5 months
Forgot the tag: #veo2.
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Hernan Moraldo
5 months
Example video generated with Veo, prompt: . The camera follows an octopus flying through a city with very high skyscrapers. A sign says "Veo". Cinematic, 35mm film released in 2024.
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Hernan Moraldo
5 months
A dog wearing a suit, writing a great novel. #veo2
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@hhm
Hernan Moraldo
5 months
And this one
@hhm
Hernan Moraldo
5 months
More Veo physics #Veo2 . Prompt: "A large iron ball falls on top of a cardboard box full of coins."
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Hernan Moraldo
8 years
@javierota @TEDxRdelaP Es lo mismo que pensé yo, pero me contuve hasta ahora. Le pasaron la pelota a la sociedad por un error propio.
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Hernan Moraldo
4 years
@ID_AA_Carmack I had some fun with that a few years ago IIRC Sonic was also one of my test games.
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Hernan Moraldo
5 months
@sarahookr Which version are you watching? . The book is a lot better then the TV series. And Tencent version of the show is much closer to the book (though it is more dense because of that).
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Hernan Moraldo
5 months
This one seemed impossible to get until now.
@RubenEVillegas
Ruben Villegas
5 months
A cat jumping over a baby gate inside a living room #veo2
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Hernan Moraldo
4 years
Google AI just announced the project we've been working on for a while, with Leopold Haller, Nathan Martz, Stewart Miles, Hina Sakazaki!.
@GoogleAI
Google AI
4 years
#ML techniques have demonstrated the potential to positively impact game development but often require specialized skills. Today we share a system that requires no ML expertise, works on many popular genres, and can train an ML policy in less than an hour→
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Hernan Moraldo
3 years
@losalfajores @RISAHE1 @temberne @ElGrillone Jaja, increíble! sí, era yo.
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Hernan Moraldo
1 year
So cool!!.
@ammaar
Ammaar Reshi
1 year
Time for a fully AI generated music video! . Using @GoogleDeepMind’s impressive Veo video from I/O + ElevenLabs Music and SFX models. 🔥.
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Hernan Moraldo
11 years
Procedural locomotion example, computed with http://t.co/0v6l15uI8y.
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Hernan Moraldo
5 months
Incredible short movie made with Veo 2.
@NeuralViz
Neural Viz
5 months
These tools have come a long way these past six months. "Zorgop Knows All". Made with Google Veo 2
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Hernan Moraldo
5 months
People surround an ancient artifact (with gears and interesting mechanisms) partly buried on the sand. #veo2
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Hernan Moraldo
7 years
@danyscht @javierota PBI per capita, como todo promedio, es un indicador muy engañoso de la distribución. Si una persona muy rica se muda a un pueblo muy pobre, aumenta mucho el PBI per capita sin que disminuya la cantidad de pobres.
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Hernan Moraldo
5 months
More Veo physics.
@hua_weizhe
Weizhe Hua
5 months
A cat jumps on a couch. #veo2
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Hernan Moraldo
7 years
@cperciva @patio11 Maybe they are estimating the counts from a sample?.
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Hernan Moraldo
2 years
StoryBench is a new paper for movie generation / evaluation using Phenaki. Fantastic work by Emanuele Bugliarello and team!.
@ebugliarello
Emanuele Bugliarello
2 years
Wouldn’t it be cool if AI could help us generate movies?🎬.We built a new benchmark to measure progress in this direction🍿. “StoryBench: A Multifaceted Benchmark for Continuous Story Visualization”. 📄 👩‍💻 📈
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Hernan Moraldo
8 months
Awesome news about our work on Veo!.
@sundarpichai
Sundar Pichai
8 months
On @YouTube, we want creators to be able to express their creativity, build community + drive long-lasting businesses. New tools at #MadeOnYouTube are helping: we’re bringing Veo to Dream Screen to create high-quality, custom backgrounds on Shorts + more.
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Hernan Moraldo
7 years
@hardmaru @observablehq You may also like this method for maze generation from images
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Hernan Moraldo
13 years
genial, y un poco espeluznante, la idea de 33 bits http://t.co/mzQ1hYkV lo que escribís con un nick puede ser relacionado con vos.
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Hernan Moraldo
7 years
Alguien se dio cuenta que si traducís (mal) el nombre Lio Messi, te queda Lío Lioso en español, y Mess Messy en inglés?. Es quizás el primer pensamiento original sobre fútbol que tengo en mi vida.
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Hernan Moraldo
3 years
Today we are glad to introduce Phenaki, a model that can generate videos from text, including multi prompt "stories". Check for details and examples!.
@doomie
Dumitru Erhan
3 years
1/ Today we are excited to introduce Phenaki: short-link-to-paper, a model for generating videos from text, with prompts that can change over time, and that is able to generate videos that can be as long as multiple minutes!
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Hernan Moraldo
2 years
Glad to see our work in Phenaki featured in the Google Research blog .
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Hernan Moraldo
5 months
This thread has a lot of great Veo examples.
@babaeizadeh
MBZ
5 months
How good is #Veo2? Let's look at some samples. "a sitcom tv show about potatoes". #Veo
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Hernan Moraldo
3 years
@joe_philleo @andy_matuschak Agree. Also I think there are other dimensions in which such writing isn't linear, which matter more. See for example
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Hernan Moraldo
4 years
@paulg I'm curious how much this trend towards remote work was accelerated by Covid. How much longer would it have taken otherwise?. I suspect the trend moved ahead one or two decades at least.
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Hernan Moraldo
5 months
Haha, no, I didn't name it
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Hernan Moraldo
7 years
@sehurlburt Mathworld is typically better for that .Not sure whether it is too technical for this example still.
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Hernan Moraldo
8 years
@nothings Also interesting that after firing Rick, they published an article explaining how great it was to fire him. Must have been humiliating.
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Hernan Moraldo
3 years
@Hana82784949 @MalaPersona10 Sí, era yo. Increíble leer esa carta nuevamente tanto tiempo después.
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Hernan Moraldo
5 months
@Insectist Generally great coherence.
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Hernan Moraldo
5 months
Imagen 3 also released today, incredible work by their team!!!.
@GoogleDeepMind
Google DeepMind
5 months
We’ve also enhanced Imagen 3’s ability to:.▪️ Produce diverse art styles: realism, fantasy, portraiture and more.▪️ More faithfully turn prompts into accurate images.▪️ Generate brighter, more compositionally balanced visuals. →
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Hernan Moraldo
5 months
@vinyvince76 @toyxyz3 I generated the ones I posted myself.
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@hhm
Hernan Moraldo
8 years
@ID_AA_Carmack "AutoML . a controller neural net can propose a “child” model architecture"
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Hernan Moraldo
5 years
I have a joke about overfirtting, but I would be the only one to laugh at it.
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Hernan Moraldo
5 years
I love this image displaying the full observable universe (in log scale, by Pablo Carlos Budassi). Nice way to display planets, galaxies, and large scale structure in a single image.
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Hernan Moraldo
5 months
@NotBrain4brain Just using the same VideoFX version people can use externally, nothing else. I didn't try other math problems, except some simple arithmetic. When I saw the arithmetic worked I moved to this formula, but didn't push further.
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Hernan Moraldo
3 years
@santisiri Paid in ARS?.
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Hernan Moraldo
5 months
This is a great point!.
@MattMcGill_
Matt McGill
5 months
Video models still make lots of mistakes with physics, but they also get a lot right. My intuitive physics model is constantly getting feedback from the world to keep it on track yet we ask video models to produce entire clips with no sensory feedback built into the system.
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Hernan Moraldo
2 years
@togelius A simple example of non-generative: a binary classifier.
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Hernan Moraldo
5 months
@shlomifruchter That's true!! Really cool.
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Hernan Moraldo
5 years
AI Dungeon 2 is maybe the greatest innovation in games in long years. If you care at all about games you should try it out.
@nickwalton00
Nick Walton
5 years
AI Dungeon 2 is publicly released! You can download it on iOS now and Android in another day or two. As a holiday gift we've decided that it will be completely free till the end of the year so try it out now!
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Hernan Moraldo
6 years
@BertholdGambrel @paulg @ArnaudBonzom Also in some cases with multiple numbers: "ranging from 3 to 124" looks better than "ranging from three to 124".
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Hernan Moraldo
7 years
@patio11 An alternative exists for people who want to make games without risking everything: make games for paying clients. I used to do this with a small game dev studio, making games for advertisers, trade shows, etc.
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Hernan Moraldo
3 years
@monicaihibert Te recomiendo eliminar esas preguntas, o transcribirlas. Es muy sencillo para alguien que reconoce que visitaste su escuela determinar quién es cada persona. Es ilegal publicarlas de este modo de acuerdo a por ejemplo ver 28.1.
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Hernan Moraldo
5 months
@NotBrain4brain I just used the VideoFX interface alone.
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Hernan Moraldo
5 years
@jasonbaldridge It's not exactly the same, but this reminds me of what people used to say about Niels Bohr:
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Hernan Moraldo
7 years
@tvaneerd @svershin on the sock market.
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Hernan Moraldo
5 years
@_johnwage @karpathy If you have concrete projects, as you make progress on them you find obstacles and gaps in your knowledge. You make progress by learning how to deal with those on demand, as they show up.
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Hernan Moraldo
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Hernan Moraldo
2 years
The approach described here is similar to what I presented in 2014 in (I think others adapted it to neural networks in the subsequent years, but the basic idea is easily generalizable to any random process).
@anitakirkovska
anita
2 years
OpenAI is working on a watermarking tool to mark GPT-generated text with a special, hidden signal. And they have a working prototype.👀. How does it work?👇🏻.
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Hernan Moraldo
3 years
Great summary of our project!.
@RubenEVillegas
Ruben Villegas
3 years
Honored to have @sundarpichai tweet about our work!! 🥳🥳 Checkout our astronauts, pandas washing dishes, driving, riding bikes, and other cool videos in our website #Phenaki #text2video.
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Hernan Moraldo
3 years
Yes, the idea of improving LLMs incrementally by training on their own output after using chain of thought is very interesting!.
@jackclarkSF
Jack Clark
3 years
@I_are oh, I'm pretty hyped up about this one. One of rare occasions I used an !!! in my newsletter.
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Hernan Moraldo
7 years
A literature teacher once told my class that "million" or "millions" was almost always exaggeration. She said there is just not that much stuff around us on a daily basis, and advised us to use hundreds, and sometimes, thousands. Now in tech, millions is often too little!.
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Hernan Moraldo
5 months
At Neurips!
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Hernan Moraldo
4 years
6 years ago I left Argentina to join Google (first in UK, later in the USA). Crazy how the time flies. and it's been a ride!.
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Hernan Moraldo
4 years
@patriciomolina @santisiri Cuánta razón tenía el que lo presentaba.
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Hernan Moraldo
1 year
@DrYohanJohn @JesParent Black holes, wormholes?.
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Hernan Moraldo
6 months
@Durgan @SoyBorza @berdyx "a mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems" - Renyi.
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Hernan Moraldo
7 years
Now I'm a dad I can finally say my bad jokes are dad jokes. I've been training all this time!.
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Hernan Moraldo
4 years
@ID_AA_Carmack The workplace notes really look like your old .plan files (maybe more so than tweets).
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Hernan Moraldo
7 years
@Lo_Mauro Me recuerda a entregas para hoy, que nadie ni siquiera mira por una semana.
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Hernan Moraldo
3 years
@fchollet Surely a second LLM will be used to extract them.
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Hernan Moraldo
3 years
@vgr @dxvgx I love that in this thread there are at least four different names that are all right answers (synonyms of each other). In Spanish some call them bicho bolita, they reshape into small balls when under attach.
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Hernan Moraldo
7 years
Beginners are also incredibly useful for finding important gaps in documentation, processes, etc. and creative solutions to known problems. The beginner state is precious, never to be wasted.
@b0bbytabl3s
Bobby T
7 years
@sehurlburt From another perspective, beginners are often in the best position to teach(write) about the things they just learned. They do not make as many assumptions of previous knowledge as many experienced people do, and thus it often helps it "click" for other beginners.
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Hernan Moraldo
4 years
@D_Twitt3r @paulg @steven_braham @MegaBasedChad Only caveat is that it will fall back to the default every now and then, and when that happens you have to set it again to latest tweets.
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Hernan Moraldo
8 years
@Lijter @BrunacciHernan @AlejandrOK2012 El libro se escribió mientras se hacía la película, y se publicó después.
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Hernan Moraldo
4 years
@kevin_zakka @hardmaru I suspect the reason why we are still benefitting from a form of "feature engineering" in IL / RL is that agent tasks are a lot more sensitive to errors (b/c of how error propagates through steps in an episode) than Supervised Learning tasks.
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Hernan Moraldo
1 year
@redblobgames People often call them motors in Spanish.
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Hernan Moraldo
3 years
@michael_nielsen It's interesting how different this is from Richard Hamming's comment on working in the most important problems in your field.
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Hernan Moraldo
6 years
@squareoctopus @matajueguitos @__rumpel Ah, me dijo ya lo contactaron por la entrevista así que no tengo datos muy misteriosos para aportar. Hablábamos un montón en esa época en que estaba trabajando en sus juegos, y me parece genial que se recupere y valore esa parte de la historia.
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Hernan Moraldo
7 years
@santisiri Wow, congrats!!.
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Hernan Moraldo
5 years
@paulg Then maybe Bleecker is a good choice. Best burger I ever tried.
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Hernan Moraldo
5 years
Wow! So proud to have helped with its foundation, even if I haven't been around to see it grow for at least a decade. Great work and congratulations!.
@JaviOnMars
Javier Otaegui
5 years
ADVA, the Argentinian Game Developers Association, turns 16 today. I'm extremely proud of being a part of it since it's origins. ADVA shaped the industry in our country and made grow it into what it is now by attracting talent and helping studios. We need to continue growing!.
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Hernan Moraldo
3 years
Very cool video generated using Phenaki and Imagen Video.
@irinablok
irina blok
3 years
Having fun generating videos from text with #Phenaki and #ImagenVideo.
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Hernan Moraldo
4 years
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Hernan Moraldo
2 years
@JenovaChen My 5.5 y.o. wanted to send you this letter. She's been playing Journey since she's 3 and a half! A big fan, she draws the traveler everywhere, makes stories with her younger sister, and plays with dolls. Thanks to you and the team for bringing so much joy to us!
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Hernan Moraldo
7 years
It's always great to return to the Computer History Museum, in Silicon Valley. The first time I went there it was an incredible experience, and I remember feeling echoes of what I felt in my first trip to the US, the day I went to the MIT Museum.
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Hernan Moraldo
3 years
Another cool example of a video generated from text, using Phenaki and Imagen Video.
@alonsorobots
alonso martinez
3 years
AI short film created with text-to-video. At the rate of advance in this area of research, we are likely ~2 years out from seeing a major tv show fully created using similar techniques. prompt in comments!. #generativeart #AIart
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Hernan Moraldo
3 years
@marksiracusano @iamdoomling Es que lo más importante ahí es lógica, no aritmética.
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Hernan Moraldo
9 months
@JeffDean @OriolVinyalsML The chart was very nice! It used to be visible to the public in the old Visitor Center (beta). I don't know where it is now.
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Hernan Moraldo
5 years
@nickwalton00 This is just incredible. Great job!!.
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Hernan Moraldo
1 year
@goodfellow_ian Textbooks in Spanish use either convention somewhat arbitrarily.
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