✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-09-05
The biggest story of the week is the advances in the crossover of art and science that will become increasingly democratized. Brave. New. World.
How Synthesia is combining AI voice and video models to improve avatar realism with natural gestures and accent, intonation, and expressiveness preservation
By Rhiannon Williams / MIT Technology Review. View the full context on Techmeme.
There is a nostalgia meme that compares early computer graphics in popular games to their modern equivalent. So, imagine today’s Synthesia in a decade becoming the equivalent of a classic 1980s arcade game or early CGI in movies.
The implications of deepfake shifting from simulacrum to artifice to imperceptible is going to compound. Or, perhaps, in-person interviews and in-person certification examination will remain the standard for trust and non-repudiation.
Or…
