Fake videos of real people and how to spot them Supasorn Suwajanakorn TED 2018 Can we create a digital avatar that looks, acts and talks just like our sweet grandma? This question has inspired Supasorn Suwajanakorn, a recent PhD graduate from the University of Washington, to spend years developing new tools to make it a reality. He developed a set of algorithms that can build a moving 3D face model of anyone from just photos, which was awarded the Innovation of the Year in 2016. He introduced the first system that can replicate a person's speech and produce a realistic CG-animation by only analyzing their existing video footage -- all without ever bringing in the person to a Hollywood capture studio. Suwajanakorn is working in the field of machine learning and computer vision. His goal is to bring vision algorithms out of the lab and make them work in the wild. For video of Supasorn Suwajanakorn TED2018 Talk, click here. The world is full of false prophets and people suffering because of what these prophets do. People with integrity need to fight back and help those less well off. Some examples: James Hansen a former NASA scientist and professor at Columbia University. For decades, he has been sounding alarms of serious man-made global warming from use of fossil fuels. He is involved in lawsuits on behalf of youth to penalize companies producing fossil fuels. He does this to protect “rights” of certain American youth to a “stable climate.” No one has that right. Climate is what it is and is controlled only by nature. Hansen has been a strong supporter of nuclear energy, mainly one technology in particular. The problem is that this is not the only nuclear technology that will be used. Nor will any nuclear technology be implemented quickly worldwide like he suggests. Finally, the main advantages of nuclear power are to help humanity have better economies, food supply and clean water, not to pretend that a few prophets can reverse man-made global warming. Nuclear power cannot be a solution for man-made global warming, because carbon dioxide is an essential molecule of life, not a main cause of avoidable undesirable climate change. The video and audio technology described by Supasorn Suwajanakorn in his TED2018 Talk could be used to expand Hansen’s reach worldwide. It is already enough of a problem.
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