Computer Vision News - October 2022

15 AI Spotlight News Make-A-Video: An AI system that generates videos from text That’s the announcement made by Meta of Make-A- Video , a new AI system that lets people turn text prompts into brief, high-quality video clips. With just a few words or lines of text, Make-A-Video can create videos full of colors, characters, and landscapes. The system can also create videos from images or take existing videos and create new ones that are similar. The system is not available yet for public use and – obviously –most existing demos are videos of animals – existing or imaginary. If you want to learn about this, we can invite the fine Meta folks on one of our next issues to tell us more. Read More These Autonomous, Wireless Robots Could Dance on a Human Hair Apparently these robots are really really tiny, but that’s the direction we are heading into: they are called Antbots by their creators in the Cornell lab led by Michael Reynolds. As they say, they are about the size of an ant to an ant . They comprise three major systems: a photovoltaic cell to accept light as power, a tiny integrated circuit for controlling and directing that power and a set of hinged legs that it uses to scoot itself around. It is only a bit disappointing that the intelligence of these robots is directly limited by the scale of the electronics it is just not yet possible to fit enough on there to perform complex logic. Read More The ‘Unsolved’ Problem in Machine Learning There are various domains in the field of AI and machine learning that developers dive deep into and come up with small incremental improvements. However, challenges to further advancement in these fields persist, which make these problems yet unsolved. Stimulated by a very lively discussion on reddit.com/r/MachineLearning , these problems were reviewed and categorized. You will not be surprised to find among them issues like uncertainty prediction, overfitting, estimating causality instead of correlations and reproducibility. A very interesting Reddit post suggests: low-energy deep learning systems. Read More