Google Goes Bananas
Ever improved Ai offerings continue to rain down on us. This time its the formal sounding Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, but more affectionately known as Nano Banana. Last month I talked about consistency of characters and subjects, and how it has been a major shortcoming of Ai generation in images and videos. Google have added […]
The Challenge of Ai Image Coherence
Last year, Ai rocked the world by being able to produce artificial images that were, by the standards of those days, incredibly realistic. That is of course provided we weren’t too fussed about how many fingers there were on each persons hand, or the reality of other details in the image! Then the later release […]
Does Ai Stunt Creativity?
My article last month highlighted not only the increasing quality but also the increasing cost of the latest video making Ai, and it painted a somewhat bleak future for the amateur Ai video maker. On the face of it, it would seem that amateur enthusiasts will not be able to access the superiority of software […]
Say hello to FlowFrames Video Interpolator!
A major problem for serious video makers is that of intermixed frame rates. Any set of videos made with a multiple of 25 frames per second (the UK Standard) will happily mix together. Typically they are 25 – 50 – 100 FPS. Or, alternatively, any set of videos made with a multiple of 30 frames […]
Crossing the Uncanny Valley of Ai Voice
About 6 months ago, I created a video that won the September Club Documentary Competition (Move 37: Dreaming of Electric Sheep). Although it sounded like me narrating the story, it was actually an 11Labs clone of my voice. I simply typed the words for my script into a text document, and got 11labs to generate […]
Easy Access to Ai for Film Makers
Access some quality Ai programs and utilities on a pay as-you-go basis, without committing to a regular monthly subscription. Just under a year ago I made a presentation to the club about the ability of Artificial Intelligence to generate images from text prompts. Back in those yearly days, only a hand full of programs were […]
Welcome to 2025 – Ai News
The last year in Ai has been a real roller coaster ride, with twists and turns, resulting in massive changes in Ai development with its progress accelerating at an exponential rate. Possibly the most important image today is the one that shows the evolution of Human intelligence compared with that of Artificial intelligence. This chart […]
Demis Hassabis Ai Nobel Lecture
https://youtu.be/yxAJohm0l_g?si=Fz5JslR6CNLP3KpF Nobel lecture with the Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2024 Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind, London, UK. Introduction by Johan Åqvist, member of the Nobel Committe for Chemistry, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. From: The Nobel Lectures 8th December 2024 Ai Home Page
OpenAi o3 (and AGi?)
Open Ai has just announced o3, a successor to their earlier model o1. Their o1 was only announced about 3 months ago., all of which shows that far from slowing down, as some have suggested, the rate of Ai development continues to accelerate. The image above compares the performance of o3 to the earlier o1 […]
Google Veo2 Video Generator
Open Ai’s SORA Video Generator was a bit of a let down. Partially because some felt disappointed that the SORA that has just been released was ‘SORA Turbo,’ not the ‘big daddy’ SORA that had been previewed earlier. But the main reason was that the competition had now caught up with products that were just […]