[jerf]

That's starting to be high enough quality that you could start considering using that for some Hollywood-grade special effects. That beach morph stuff is pretty impressive. Faces, perhaps not quite there yet because we are so hyper-focused on those biologically, but you could make one heck of a drug trip scene or a Doctor Strange-esque scene with much less effort with some of those techniques, effort perhaps even getting down to the range of Youtuber videos in the near enough future.

[eru]

Compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27559106

[jerf]

First, that's not the same technique and it's not being used for the same purpose.

Second, Hollywood doesn't care about that problem. They will take the best application of the technique, and they don't care if they have to apply a few manual touchups on the result. As long as there is one way of using the system to do the sort of thing they showed in the sample, it won't matter to them that they can't embed a full video game into the neural network itself. They only care about the happy path of the tech.

Someone's probably already starting the company now to use this in special effects, or putting someone on research in an existing company.

[eru]

> Second, Hollywood doesn't care about that problem.

Hmm, I wasn't trying to nay-say anything here. I mostly agree with your original comment.

See also how in the Gan Theft Auto they are sort-of getting the light reflection for free without having to explicitly teach the network about that parts of physics.