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AI-Generated Creatures That Stretch the Boundaries of Imagination | Sofia Crespo | TED

Can AI help us see beyond our human capabilities? Through a kaleidoscopic blend of technology, nature and art, neural artist Sofia Crespo brings to life animals that push the boundaries of creativity and imagination. Her artistic renditions of chimeras combine images of real-world endangered species to create something totally new — with the intention of…

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Can AI help us see beyond our human capabilities? Through a kaleidoscopic blend of technology, nature and art, neural artist Sofia Crespo brings to life animals that push the boundaries of creativity and imagination. Her artistic renditions of chimeras combine images of real-world endangered species to create something totally new — with the intention of inspiring real-world conservation. Witness a speculative study of creatures that never existed, brought to life by AI.

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51 Comments

  1. Hyrum_Abiff

    November 30, 2022 at 3:58 pm

    Nice 👍🙂

  2. Hainhu's Channel

    November 30, 2022 at 4:00 pm

    The best video,ever

    • Electro Man

      November 30, 2022 at 4:47 pm

      What makes it best video ever?

  3. Freddy Jose Regino Montalvo

    November 30, 2022 at 4:01 pm

    This could be useful for speculative evolution like All Tomorrows or Planet alien.

  4. Jahir Hossain

    November 30, 2022 at 4:06 pm

    Not true

    • Faiz Ali

      November 30, 2022 at 4:09 pm

      What do you mean?

  5. Chelsea Shurmantine

    November 30, 2022 at 4:14 pm

    I love insects so much

  6. Saikatul Islam

    November 30, 2022 at 4:15 pm

    Sometimes AI can not generate perfectly image resolution

  7. Moira Willenov

    November 30, 2022 at 4:21 pm

    Try photoleap. It will generate anything you can imagine. All you have to do is type.

  8. Daniel Brown

    November 30, 2022 at 4:29 pm

    This looks like something James Cameron would use in the Avatar movies

  9. KJ

    November 30, 2022 at 4:41 pm

    No doubt theres possibilities with this for something like the metaverse in ways we can’t really conceptualise or predict yet

    • Nexzor

      November 30, 2022 at 8:27 pm

      If you meet those things in augmented reality one can can’t for sure say that you won’t go mental – Cyberpsychosis.

  10. Zk Motivation

    November 30, 2022 at 4:44 pm

    The saddest thing for a small youtuber can feel is when you wake up in the morning and nothing has changed on your channel

  11. Evan Li

    November 30, 2022 at 5:08 pm

    These images are definitely Lovecraftian

  12. Yulfian

    November 30, 2022 at 5:32 pm

    as a moslem we belive that the best creator is Allah

  13. English ranas sis

    November 30, 2022 at 6:54 pm

    perfect

  14. glichjthebicycle

    November 30, 2022 at 6:56 pm

    1:53 what she said is probably wrong. Mantis Shrimp have 12 different photoreceptors not because they wanna see more colors. Humans have 3 and our brain calculates those into 16.something million different combinations. Mantisshrimp have 12 to calculate.. 12. Actually they dont calculate at all. Probably. Mantis Shrimp attack with their mandibles at such a speed that biologists estimate the eyes to do the following: They think that the eyes themselves communicate with the mandibles so that the electrical signal doesnt have to pass through the brain. This saves time. So they have 12 different receptors to see 12 different colors. They also have a pretty good understanding about newtonian motion and can probably see depth quite well.

  15. OhFishyFish

    November 30, 2022 at 7:03 pm

    So she hasn’t developed any AI, she just thinks she’s an artist after feeding few phrases to one of many AI engines and printing the output. TED is really scraping the bottom for some content here.

    • Yahya Hautamäki

      November 30, 2022 at 9:14 pm

      Well didn’t someone tape a banana to wall and called it art?

  16. Waseem Abbas

    November 30, 2022 at 7:20 pm

    This girl is same as that in movie chutputtli

  17. Maurits Unkel

    November 30, 2022 at 8:34 pm

    I am so curious about how the animation like pictures-in-series is generated by the AI, please link me anything I can look up!

  18. Por un mundo Libre

    November 30, 2022 at 9:01 pm

    ❤❤

  19. Captain Hobbyist

    November 30, 2022 at 9:44 pm

    Edna E Mode?

  20. Courtney Brown

    November 30, 2022 at 10:02 pm

    I’m working on a new sculpture that the image AI helped me to imagine. I’m very excited about it, especially once our copyrighted material is respected and I don’t have to worry about my intellectual property anymore.

  21. Ashley Figueroa

    November 30, 2022 at 10:49 pm

    This is like the Southern Reach Trilogy books. Which inspired the movie Annihilation

  22. David W Lee

    November 30, 2022 at 11:04 pm

    Her outfit is something I never would have imagined.

    • Create Your Lighthouse

      December 1, 2022 at 12:10 am

      Lol 😂

    • fburton8

      December 1, 2022 at 7:12 am

      She reminds me a bit of Nana Moussaka.

  23. John Sirois

    November 30, 2022 at 11:49 pm

    What kind of AI generated creature is she? So many creepy cheerleaders loving these talks.

  24. Create Your Lighthouse

    December 1, 2022 at 12:18 am

    I wonder if she is AI!? this technology isn’t for the purpose it presents it is to dumb down the creative mind and to copy and reproduce images in a defective way this is dangerous technology to humanity wake up ⬆️ look at the agenda behind the illusions very manipulated indeed just part of the overlay in the matrix reality and simulation that isn’t REAL LIFE

  25. L.lawliet

    December 1, 2022 at 1:39 am

    God is the Greatest ᕦ⁠༼⁠ ⁠~⁠ ⁠•́⁠ ⁠ₒ⁠ ⁠•̀⁠ ⁠~⁠ ⁠༽⁠ᕤ

  26. EPA Sketch

    December 1, 2022 at 2:10 am

    AI images have their place, but AI art is an oxymoron and has been a plague on the art community since it became more accessible. Until AI image generators are no longer using artwork that the artists haven’t given explicit permission for it to be trained with, it’s just another form of new-age thievery. AI images have no soul except what we glean from the original art it is sourced from. We’ve heard for years that art made on computers, despite still being literally drawn, is cheating, and not “real” art, and here we have this sort of thing with people salivating. AI images could be useful for a lot of things, but it is currently a novelty at best and a disease in the art world at most.

  27. Jessica Finney

    December 1, 2022 at 2:47 am

    i have often wondered if other people see colors the same way i see colors. for example, could what i think of blue looking like, look like someone else’s orange? the thing is we would never know. if shade A = orange and shade B = red, but both of us were to call them purple, we would both believe we were experiencing the same color because we have both defined it with the same label. does this make sense to anyone else but me? i hope i’m explaining myself sufficiently. 🤷‍♀ maybe i’ve talked to Bob one too many times today…. LMAO!

    • Blackplazma 6000

      December 1, 2022 at 7:48 am

      yes it makes sense, i have thought the same many times

    • VØID

      December 1, 2022 at 6:41 pm

      That’s actually quite creepy depending on how you think of it lol
      Though I don’t think that’s the case as we know scientificaly how light work and how our eyes are designed to see color in a specific way

  28. Vikas Nayak

    December 1, 2022 at 2:48 am

    Anyone know about DALLE 2

  29. Nhan Tiger

    December 1, 2022 at 3:19 am

    AI change the world in future

  30. Allen Culbertson

    December 1, 2022 at 3:54 am

    Thank you and God bless you

  31. Makati

    December 1, 2022 at 9:21 am

    Gosh! This is like making a chimera in kinda-ethic way 😱

  32. Chirag Rachhoya

    December 1, 2022 at 1:30 pm

    Whatever It Is It’s SOUNDS FUN!!!!!!😍😍😁

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  34. Sylvia Pianista

    December 1, 2022 at 2:56 pm

    I have no idea

  35. benny g

    December 1, 2022 at 3:31 pm

    This benefits society in absolutely no way, shape or form

  36. Gabriel Toledano

    December 1, 2022 at 6:19 pm

    David Hume’s missing shade of blue

  37. Software Testing Learning Hub

    December 2, 2022 at 3:08 am

    Great talk, thank you!

  38. Anbu Joseph

    December 2, 2022 at 2:09 pm

    If Artificial Intelligence fed by Human Intelligence can create such great things, what about the actual Intelligence that created this universe and beyond can be capable of… I am wondering.

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