Immediately on my fourth birthday in 1992. Later, my father passed away. Being so young, I have some memories of it and my family only has a small handmade movie clips, filmed in the short window before their death. But I still have the choice of photos and in testing a new phone, Honor 400 Pro, I found that I was able to resurrect it using AI.
Honestly? I really don’t know how to feel about it.
The origin of my father (left) is still the image of the image and the Ai-created video of his (right).
The phone is the new Honor 400 Pro and when it is widely a decent handset, it packs a tool that uses AI (by force through Google’s VEO-2 model) to convert any image into a 5-second video. When I read the press release about it (as I am usually) I doubt it, but I found it really interesting to use it. How does it work
You open the tool inside the gallery app, choose your source image from any image in your camera roll and kill the go. It takes about a minute to analyze this image, but then the picture suddenly spreads in life, like the magical picture of Harry Potter’s world. Don’t like the result? Just tell it to regenerate it and you will get a slightly different result.
Original steel image.
AI-created video version (converted to low quality GIF format).
I have tried it on various images with mixed results. Sometimes it is very little key (their page is diverted as a result of a book reading), while the second time it is strange. I was filled with a picture of a sheep family on Scottish Island that I shot at the Kodak Gold movie (just seen below). In the moving AI version, there was a sudden flood of sheep, which already used the camera angle in a grass field and cut it into the entire herd. I think this is called the kids “extra”. When I drove him on my cat’s picture and he threw it in strange titles for some amazing reason (seen below).
The origin of this family of sheep are still the image.
AI-created video version (converted to low quality GIF format).
But then I went another way. I’ve kept my father’s picture on my shelf for decades. He has shown it on the stage playing the boss in his band. This is a picture that I like for many reasons, but the main reason is that I myself am a musician and I have always liked that we have it in common. But this is a picture I have seen doing it. I certainly never went to a show and I’m not sure there is any video footage of playing it. So far, that is.
I fed this photo into the app and with a special feeling of panic. I waited for him to practice it and then suddenly there was: my father, walking around, gaming on his boss, apparently joined the spirit of performance. He turned this little black and white picture into something else. Something alive, in fact made me quite emotional.
But then he said another part of my mind. These Is not My father is not dynamic and dynamic with music. Not really This is what Google’s algorithms think that he will do. In many ways, it is as if a Marionate is controlled by some invisible puppets, trying to give the impression of a lifetime movement.
I went on to see what powers it would give, but each boss had a slight change while playing it. To be fair, AI did a great job here. It looks realistic, the shadow is just going well, the microphone lives in the place and his hands are actually as if they are especially boss guitars. It is still in black and white, with film grains and various symptoms of aging.
The original picture of my beautiful cat toolos.
What is it?
I think he made me all the difference because he gave me the impression of how he looked at the stage. I didn’t have to ignore any strange mistakes or other elements that could throw AI. Every time he played a soft clip, playing my father’s music.
So I am divided into how I feel. On the one hand, it is such a whole thing how it loves puppets, which is completely based on Google’s “best estimate”. I showed him in front of my brother, who seems to be the same as that of me: “I don’t believe that I like it, but I don’t even think I dislike it. It’s a kind of scary.”
On the other hand, he has entered life into a picture that I have taken for decades of treasure and has given me a glimpse of that my father was like that. And I liked to see it, even if it’s real.
This is definitely not a great solution for me, and if I really want to remember it, I will turn my original household movies instead of e-created imagery. But such AI tools may eventually bring real comfort to many people in the world with the passers -by, who now have only a handful of static images.
And I would like to think that, perhaps for all AI’s mistakes, is probably a way in which it can do something good.
