cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/18066953
On Tuesday, Microsoft Research Asia unveiled VASA-1, an AI model that can create a synchronized animated video of a person talking or singing from a single photo and an existing audio track. In the future, it could power virtual avatars that render locally and don’t require video feeds—or allow anyone with similar tools to take a photo of a person found online and make them appear to say whatever they want.
Every month for the last year, they have made more progress in AI than they thought they’d make in the next couple of years combined, and the rate of progress is accelerating. It’s coming much sooner than anyone thinks.