Just talked with Max Headroom and Michael Scott - my wife is an office fan so knows the references, and I know enough Max to ask the right things.
Overall, a fun experience. I think that MH was better than Scott. Max was missing the glitches and moving background but I'd imagine both of those are technically challenging to achieve.
Michael Scott's mouth seemed a bit wrong - I was thinking Michael J Fox but my wife then corrected that with Jason Bateman - which is much more like it. He knew Office references alright, but wasn't quite Steve Carell enough.
The default while it was listening could do with some work, I think - that was the least convincing bit; for Max he would have just glitched or even been completely still I would think. Michael Scott seemed too synthetic at this point.
Don't get me wrong, this was pretty clever and I enjoyed it, just trying to say what I found lacking without trying to sound like I could do better (which I couldn't!).
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zebomon
This is impressive. The video chat works well. It is just a hair away from a very comfortable conversation. I'm excited to see where you have it a year from now, if it turns out to be financially viable. Good luck!
I am very much fascinated by this virtual avatar talking thing. I tried video-retalking https://github.com/OpenTalker/video-retalking just to see how far I can make it work to make a talking avatar but it is tremendously difficult. But this holds tremendous possibilities and I hope it can be eventually cheaper to run such models. I know this is far superior and probably a lot different but I hope to find open source solutions like Lemon Slice someday that I can experiment with.
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lostmsu
This is very impressive. Any details about model architecture and size? Input and output representation?
How does voice work? You mentioned Deepgram. Does it mean you do Speech-to-Text-to-Speech?
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gitroom
honestly this feels kinda huge - stuff like this is moving so fast, it's insane seeing it go real-time
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mentalgear
So basically the old open-source live-portrait hooked up with audio output. Was very glitchy and low res on my side. btw: Wondering if it's legal to use characters you don't have rights to. (how do you justify possible IP infringement)
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bsenftner
This is fantastic. I was the founder of the 3D Avatar Store, a company that was doing similar things 15 years ago with 3D reconstructions of people. Your platform is what I was trying to build back then, but at the time nobody thought such tech was possible, or they seriously wanted to make porn, and we refused. I'll try reaching out through channels to connect with your team. I come from a feature film VFX, Academy Award quality work, so it would be interesting to discuss. Plus, I've not been idle since the 3D Avatar Store, not at all...
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bigyabai
> reducing delays and improving resolution (purpose-built ASICs will help)
How can you be sure? Investing in an ASIC seems like one of the most expensive and complicated solutions.
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elternal_love
Hmm, plug this together with a app which collects photos and chats with a deceased love one and you have a working Malachim. Might be worth a shot.
Impressive technology - impressive demo! Sadly, the conversation seems to be a little bit overplayed. Might be worth plugging ChatGPT or some better LLM in the logic section.,
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ashishact
This is just brilliant. Hope you succeed, so that eventually I get an API to play with.
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andrewstuart
A really compelling experience.
It seems clumsy to use copyrighted characters in your demos.
Seems to me this will be a standard way to interact with LLMs and even companies - like a receptionist/customer service/salesperson.
Obviously games could use this.
snappyleads
Hey, I tried this and enjoyed using the demo - looks really cool! Just curious how it compares to what character.ai recently put out as well
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NoScopeNinja
Hey, this looks really cool! I'm wondering - what happens if you feed it something totally different like a Van Gogh painting or anime character? Have you tested any non-photo inputs?
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wouterjanl
Really cool stuff. It felt strangely real. Impressive!
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benob
Very nice. Are you planning a paper?
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anishsikka
this was overall fun. better than expected. i'm an office fan so tried dwight and michael scott.
i hope you folks get better at this. excited to see where you get in the next 12 months or so. Godspeed!
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sid-the-kid
The system just crashed. Sorry! Working on getting things live again as fast as we can!
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o_____________o
Are you going to offer a web embeddable version of the Live offering?
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inhumantsar
love the demo video with Andrew. showing the potential as well as the delays and awkwardness of AI is refreshing compared to the heavily edited hype reels that are so common
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aorloff
Max Headroom lives !
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movedx01
watching baron harkonnen verbally create me code for todo list in React was rather amusing, thanks
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tetris11
If you could lower the email signup for a few hours, that'd be nice. I'm not going to sign up for yet another service I'm unsure about.
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doublerabbit
"Try it now live" and then request me to enter my email.
Just talked with Max Headroom and Michael Scott - my wife is an office fan so knows the references, and I know enough Max to ask the right things.
Overall, a fun experience. I think that MH was better than Scott. Max was missing the glitches and moving background but I'd imagine both of those are technically challenging to achieve.
Michael Scott's mouth seemed a bit wrong - I was thinking Michael J Fox but my wife then corrected that with Jason Bateman - which is much more like it. He knew Office references alright, but wasn't quite Steve Carell enough.
The default while it was listening could do with some work, I think - that was the least convincing bit; for Max he would have just glitched or even been completely still I would think. Michael Scott seemed too synthetic at this point.
Don't get me wrong, this was pretty clever and I enjoyed it, just trying to say what I found lacking without trying to sound like I could do better (which I couldn't!).
This is impressive. The video chat works well. It is just a hair away from a very comfortable conversation. I'm excited to see where you have it a year from now, if it turns out to be financially viable. Good luck!
https://lemonslice.com/api/videos/video-XzDwIcW6QCvSIj1vX1Hu...
I am very much fascinated by this virtual avatar talking thing. I tried video-retalking https://github.com/OpenTalker/video-retalking just to see how far I can make it work to make a talking avatar but it is tremendously difficult. But this holds tremendous possibilities and I hope it can be eventually cheaper to run such models. I know this is far superior and probably a lot different but I hope to find open source solutions like Lemon Slice someday that I can experiment with.
This is very impressive. Any details about model architecture and size? Input and output representation?
How does voice work? You mentioned Deepgram. Does it mean you do Speech-to-Text-to-Speech?
honestly this feels kinda huge - stuff like this is moving so fast, it's insane seeing it go real-time
So basically the old open-source live-portrait hooked up with audio output. Was very glitchy and low res on my side. btw: Wondering if it's legal to use characters you don't have rights to. (how do you justify possible IP infringement)
This is fantastic. I was the founder of the 3D Avatar Store, a company that was doing similar things 15 years ago with 3D reconstructions of people. Your platform is what I was trying to build back then, but at the time nobody thought such tech was possible, or they seriously wanted to make porn, and we refused. I'll try reaching out through channels to connect with your team. I come from a feature film VFX, Academy Award quality work, so it would be interesting to discuss. Plus, I've not been idle since the 3D Avatar Store, not at all...
> reducing delays and improving resolution (purpose-built ASICs will help)
How can you be sure? Investing in an ASIC seems like one of the most expensive and complicated solutions.
Hmm, plug this together with a app which collects photos and chats with a deceased love one and you have a working Malachim. Might be worth a shot.
Impressive technology - impressive demo! Sadly, the conversation seems to be a little bit overplayed. Might be worth plugging ChatGPT or some better LLM in the logic section.,
This is just brilliant. Hope you succeed, so that eventually I get an API to play with.
A really compelling experience.
It seems clumsy to use copyrighted characters in your demos.
Seems to me this will be a standard way to interact with LLMs and even companies - like a receptionist/customer service/salesperson.
Obviously games could use this.
Hey, I tried this and enjoyed using the demo - looks really cool! Just curious how it compares to what character.ai recently put out as well
Hey, this looks really cool! I'm wondering - what happens if you feed it something totally different like a Van Gogh painting or anime character? Have you tested any non-photo inputs?
Really cool stuff. It felt strangely real. Impressive!
Very nice. Are you planning a paper?
this was overall fun. better than expected. i'm an office fan so tried dwight and michael scott. i hope you folks get better at this. excited to see where you get in the next 12 months or so. Godspeed!
The system just crashed. Sorry! Working on getting things live again as fast as we can!
Are you going to offer a web embeddable version of the Live offering?
love the demo video with Andrew. showing the potential as well as the delays and awkwardness of AI is refreshing compared to the heavily edited hype reels that are so common
Max Headroom lives !
watching baron harkonnen verbally create me code for todo list in React was rather amusing, thanks
If you could lower the email signup for a few hours, that'd be nice. I'm not going to sign up for yet another service I'm unsure about.
"Try it now live" and then request me to enter my email.
I'll pass thanks.