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Post by bazookagoof on Aug 20, 2020 1:08:57 GMT
Someone is measuring & weighing their little guys!
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Post by 3piggles on Aug 20, 2020 23:49:10 GMT
Great video of a no stress way to weigh and measure piggies.
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Post by bazookagoof on Aug 21, 2020 0:57:42 GMT
Great video of a no stress way to weigh and measure piggies. Although I do love their rather bemused expressions.
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Post by 3piggles on Aug 21, 2020 20:23:59 GMT
I often wonder what they're thinking
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Post by bazookagoof on Aug 25, 2020 0:28:03 GMT
The music video "Take On Me" by A-Ha, except all music has been removed & replaced with Foley effects!
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Post by Bean on Aug 25, 2020 6:47:11 GMT
Very funny! I loved all her silly squeaky noises and the awful playing of instruments!
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Post by bazookagoof on Aug 25, 2020 19:10:06 GMT
Very funny! I loved all her silly squeaky noises and the awful playing of instruments! Her surprised yelps made me laugh out loud, honestly.
Someone's done a handful of these, mostly music videos but also a few TV show intros:
MacGyver (no music)
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Post by 3piggles on Aug 26, 2020 1:00:50 GMT
I remember that video so well, I was playing the song in my head. Same with Mcgyver. The effect is cool, at least in limited quantities.
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Post by Bean on Aug 26, 2020 6:52:45 GMT
I don't know MacGyver - I've heard it mentioned by Marg's sisters when my husband's watching The Simpsons, but didn't realise it was a real show!
I liked the video though, it's those not so cool 'arrggh' noises that are the best - a total contrast to the usual cool they try to make characters like that exude all the time!
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Post by 3piggles on Aug 26, 2020 18:16:26 GMT
MacGyver was a highly educated and resourceful person who used a Swiss Army Knife to do just about everything. Richard Dean Anderson played him in the 1985 series. He also played played the lead on Stargate SG-1, if you ever watched that.
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Post by bazookagoof on Aug 26, 2020 19:25:09 GMT
And now for something completely different...
A cat who sounds like he's saying, "Old Long Johnson":
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Post by 3piggles on Aug 27, 2020 20:51:49 GMT
Lol, that cat is definitely having a conversation with me🤗
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Post by bazookagoof on Sept 1, 2020 22:59:51 GMT
Normally something like this ought to go in the music video thread, but it's a little "off", so I'm putting it here.
It's Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up", except that an AI program is attempting to generate a song based off of the original tune.
To be honest, the music isn't bad at all, but the lyrics are almost incomprehensible!
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Post by Bean on Sept 2, 2020 6:59:50 GMT
Yes, it doesn't really work, does it?! Still interesting what can be done though.
I can't find any good clips, but we watched a documentary the other night about a man called Peter Scott-Morgan who was diagnosed with motor neuron disease a couple of years ago. He's a very successful scientist with a PhD in robotics, and also not too badly off, so basically made it his project to see how he could offset the effects of the disease (although it progressed very quickly).
One of the things he worked on was creating a voice for when he lost his - something that sounded like him, could express emotion and also had some element of AI so that with time, conversations could be more fluid than when you have to select one letter/ phrase at a time. The first versions were disappointing for him, but he did end up with something pretty amazing, and just before he had to have a laryngectomy and lost his voice. They even programmed it to sing, and it that was remarkably realistic - it didn't just sound like autotuning!
It was a fascinating programme, and he's quite an extraordinary man - seeing the challenge, opportunity and fun in a situation that could so easily have floored him. He hopes to continue making progress that will help everyone with the disease.
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Post by 3piggles on Sept 2, 2020 15:38:34 GMT
Bean, that made me think of Steven Hawkings. While his automated speech sounded automated, he carried on long conversations, taught classes, etc., until he died.
One thing I noted about the video was the jerky repeating of the same scene from the original video, which meant once the song had progressed beyond the repeated video segment, the voice no longer match with what his mouth was doing. There were some garbled spots and an empty segment or two. I think it would have been better had the whole video played through, so the song matched his mouth on the video. It's amazing what people will hear correctly, even if it's not correct, as long as it matches how the mouth is moving.
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Post by bazookagoof on Sept 2, 2020 23:14:52 GMT
It's amazing what people will hear correctly, even if it's not correct, as long as it matches how the mouth is moving. I read some of the comments on YouTube and I laughed uproariously as people tried to decipher the lyrics:
"My name is Satan..." "Do You want the spaghetti or the hamburger?" "I'm Pickle Rick." "Mention you Neon mansion."
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Post by Bean on Sept 3, 2020 6:32:30 GMT
That can be funny enough with regular songs, let alone AI compositions!
It was actually the same programmer working with this chap who had worked with Stephen Hawkins. She said Stephen Hawkins was very particular about controlling what he said. He'd prepare thoroughly for speeches, conversations and classes, by anticipating what he'd likely be asked and making sure he was ready. He used AI to make this process as efficient as was possible, but was always against relinquishing any control.
If you're willing to let the boundaries blur a little, allowing AI some free rein can speed things up significantly. Peter was quite excited about the fact it'd create sentences based on what it would expect him to say, and that the new him would be mostly him but enhanced by AI, maybe even surprising him sometimes. It was that spontaneity in conversation etc that he craved, especially having always been a very talkative man! (His partner made some joke about how he'd expected to be able to get a few words in after the laryngectomy, but his new voice was just as dominating!)
This chap was clearly enthralled to see what technology had the potential to do if you ran with it, and loved the idea of being part cyborg, whereas Hawkins was using it as a tool so he could carry on with his work.
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Post by 3piggles on Sept 3, 2020 21:12:15 GMT
Lol, Baz, those are great, and I'm sure I could think of a few more, if I listened to it again, and didn't sing the right words in my head while listening There's a song by the B52s, Love Shack, that had a phrase no one could understand. One local radio station ran a contest, having people call in to say what they thought the B52s were saying. It was hilarious. It turned out to be "Tin roof, rusted," and no one got it. Yes, Hawking was very controlling, possibly because the illness hit him as a young man, so he didn't have the chance to learn to accept himself. He hay also have had other cognitive problems requiring him to maintain control of the situation. I think it would be much more fun to see where it takes us, but at the same time, having been a victim of auto correct enough times, when I think of letting it take us where it wants to, that's what comes to mine, lol
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Post by Bean on Sept 4, 2020 7:22:55 GMT
I can understand both perspectives - both wanting technology to represent you completely accurately because you know exactly what you want to say, but also being interested in what positives could be achieved by relinquishing some control. This chap was very much of the 'life's an adventure, let's see where it takes us' camp, a very different personality type to Hawkins.
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Post by bazookagoof on Sept 9, 2020 1:55:19 GMT
Short video featuring a guinea pig playing with a paper bag!
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