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The AI-Powered Tools Supercharging Your Imagination | Bilawal Sidhu | TED

How is AI changing the nature of human imagination and creativity? Through a mind-bending tour of new techniques he’s been tinkering with, creative technologist Bilawal Sidhu shows how anyone can use AI-powered tools — like 3D scans that let you redesign the physical world in real time — to expand the possibilities of artistic expression,…

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How is AI changing the nature of human imagination and creativity? Through a mind-bending tour of new techniques he’s been tinkering with, creative technologist Bilawal Sidhu shows how anyone can use AI-powered tools — like 3D scans that let you redesign the physical world in real time — to expand the possibilities of artistic expression, often within just minutes.

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57 Comments

  1. Shin Jara

    September 1, 2023 at 7:02 am

    Nice one 🙏🙌

  2. hr1.0gaming

    September 1, 2023 at 7:02 am

    I am first viewer and this is my first comment

  3. एक सभी के लिए,सभी एक,सभी के लिए सुख विचार भगवान से

    September 1, 2023 at 7:05 am

    God help 🤱🧠🔊💯 ai

    • Benjamin Nguyen

      September 1, 2023 at 8:28 am

      Zerg swarm 😂

  4. Drishtant Sen

    September 1, 2023 at 7:06 am

    Dude created better VFX at the age of 11 than the VFX artists at CW

  5. Brandon Burgos

    September 1, 2023 at 7:13 am

    How exciting!

  6. Nikita Kozlov

    September 1, 2023 at 7:13 am

    I love this stuff but this dude is really not selling it very well

    • Jake Wolf

      September 1, 2023 at 8:10 am

      This.

  7. Simon Beech

    September 1, 2023 at 7:38 am

    This isn’t creativity. This is ‘supercharged’ appropriation the creativity of others. There is no optimism here for learning. The next generation gets the output they wish for, zero effort, little refinement, very little in the way of development. Once the generation after have only the derivative stuff we’re churning out now as a reference, we’re creatively dead as a society.

  8. Lawn Mower

    September 1, 2023 at 7:44 am

    All I’ve done with chatgpt so far is argue with it! 😂

    • Moses Kolleh Sesay

      September 1, 2023 at 8:46 am

      .😀😀😀

  9. BTS

    September 1, 2023 at 8:18 am

    Awe

  10. revankampf

    September 1, 2023 at 8:48 am

    This is AMAZING! These tools will democratize and drastically improve workflows in multiple industries! 👏 Well done!

  11. Blast King

    September 1, 2023 at 9:25 am

    now you can trace art without worries 😁

    • Thoopsy

      September 1, 2023 at 3:11 pm

      Now you can even get the robots to trace art FOR you! Yippee!

  12. John Sirois

    September 1, 2023 at 9:31 am

    Why, it will even make War look good!

    • Mistress Freezepeach

      September 1, 2023 at 1:01 pm

      or make the enemy even more monstrous.

  13. Bendtsen

    September 1, 2023 at 9:32 am

    Why is TED so deadset on selling us this AI/ML technology? If you want to do art, pick up a pencil, a brush, a piece of clay, or what have you. Start doing it, instead of getting a computer to do a thing for you, and go “hey I did a thing!”

    • Saintfitt

      September 1, 2023 at 9:51 am

      Some people are disabled…? Some people don’t have the talent to be able to visualise their thoughts and this is great technology to be able for more people to doing that.

    • MandyWatchesYoutube

      September 1, 2023 at 10:27 am

      It all comes down to who owns the original art, scan, or photos that the AI programs use. Will devs work with original artists or fight them the whole way?

    • Bendtsen

      September 1, 2023 at 1:54 pm

      @Saintfitt Poor excuses considering the plethora of disabled artists, from the blind to those missing limbs, to Paul Alexander who is paralyzed from the neck-down due to polio and lives in an iron lung.

      EVERYONE who can move even a single part of their body, is capable of making art. Not everyone will be the next Van Gogh or Frida Kahlo, but that’s life. Not every coder will be the next Bill Gates either. Everyone can make their own art, and it will actually mean something if YOU make it. Telling disabled people that they can’t make art is extremely rude, don’t you think? Like you look down them.

      You also mention talent – “Talent” is a lie. No one is born with a talent, or a gift, that magically makes them better at drawing, writing, or sculpting. Ask anyone who has done any work of any kind, including art: It requires practice, and years of it. Being disabled doesn’t make you any less capable of practicing, it only means you need to find a different way of holding the brush. Say, use your feet instead of arms, or your mouth if you have neither

      All this technology does, is steal the works of human artists, and uses it to outcompete them by creating an endless stream of barely-decent images. A human artist can’t compete with a machine that pushes out a hundred images an hour. Especially when anything a human makes, is just used to further fuel it. It doesn’t give greater freedom to anyone, because it gives them nothing they couldn’t already do before.

    • R

      September 1, 2023 at 2:40 pm

      instead of being useless and creating something that a computer could create in seconds maybe it is better to use your time to create something unique using all the available tools.If Picasso had AI he would use it to create amazing art.

    • Thoopsy

      September 1, 2023 at 3:11 pm

      ​@SaintfittI’ve known people with ALS who have one working muscle that do art pixel by pixel on MS Paint. Anyone can do art without using tools that stole the art of others. The issue is that it takes a lot of patience to become good, but taking shortcuts isn’t the answer.

    • Kyle Moon

      September 3, 2023 at 6:54 pm

      AI isn’t replacing people picking up a pencil, a brush, or a piece of clay (physical actions). It’s replacing the digital representation of that.

  14. TheBuffalo22

    September 1, 2023 at 10:00 am

    AI and imagination are like church and state. They need to be separated. Have some integrity and use your fucking brain to create. AI should be used to learn and should stay away from art. My definition of art is a true interpretation of one’s inner feelings. Not what AI tells you to do.

  15. Fondel Mibalz

    September 1, 2023 at 10:07 am

    I can’t wait to see how this will transform the video game industry, opening it up so smaller companies can make incredible games! ❤

  16. fmbray

    September 1, 2023 at 1:29 pm

    I’m tired of all these AI videos. AI isn’t meant to replace the human collective consciousness. Creativity can’t be captured by some machine cobbling together our thoughts and ideas into a horrible, amorphous, mocking simulacrum of actual, intentional art.

    • Thoopsy

      September 1, 2023 at 3:13 pm

      Art is, like, the big thing we do NOT need to outsource. It’s difficult to do, sure, but the goal should be to do less menial work so we can make more art. Not have the machines do the art so we can do the menial work!!!

  17. Mav

    September 1, 2023 at 2:40 pm

    …..until AI kills us all

    • Blizado

      September 3, 2023 at 10:19 am

      When AI kills us, then human killed us, because AI itself didn’t kill us without a reason.

  18. EPA Sketch

    September 1, 2023 at 3:57 pm

    I am sick to death of TED’s focus on AI generation. It’s one thing to share automation tech, yes. But in an era where I am watching artists have their work and careers and dedication ripped out from under them and AI generated art is destroying and cheapening the value of creation, TED has been horrifically fanboyish about the processes that cause it. There are some wonderful parts of AI and AI generation, even in the creative field. But all I’ve seen is positive and myopic exuberance. Maybe feature some of the examples of how people have had to get highly creative to avoid their work being stolen, maybe talk about all the people who have been violated through deepfake po r noGraphy. Talk about how it’s enabling scams. Share with us why moderation and humanity have to direct AI in the right direction.

    • Blizado

      September 3, 2023 at 10:18 am

      That’s just the disadvantage of progress: there are always some professions that fall by the wayside. A lot of professions have died out or changed fundamentally in the last 20 years alone. That is simply the way things are. Just because some creative people are now being hit doesn’t change anything. But it also leads to the fact that always something new is created and therefore also new professions, in which the knowledge of creative people is very valuable.

  19. C M

    September 1, 2023 at 5:25 pm

    This is a joke, right?

  20. KaosNoKamisama

    September 1, 2023 at 6:47 pm

    Shame on you TED. Promoting ideas and creativity isn’t done by promoting those who build their platform by stealing from creatives and destroying their livelihoods at the same time. SHAME.

  21. Virtual Minds Tamil

    September 2, 2023 at 12:52 am

    Meanwhile, i am doing math thinking what is his age right now 🧐

    • cloudsofsunset

      September 4, 2023 at 1:17 am

      11 in 2001… 32 now

    • Virtual Minds Tamil

      September 4, 2023 at 1:20 am

      @cloudsofsunset i thought 42 , my bad lol

  22. Ron

    September 2, 2023 at 1:12 am

    Looks hella ugly to me, but promising. If this continues, then it might be almost like reality.

    • Blizado

      September 3, 2023 at 10:14 am

      Yeah, we are still in the very early beginning of this tech. But as fast it developed over the last month… who know how good it will be already in a year or two. But I guess the better the quality get the slower is the development to get even better.

  23. Hiep Nguyen

    September 2, 2023 at 9:22 am

    Thanks

  24. Hiep

    September 2, 2023 at 9:22 am

    Thanks

  25. Moon Man

    September 2, 2023 at 2:28 pm

    These AI tools are not supercharging the imagination, they are making it vestigial.

    • Blizado

      September 3, 2023 at 10:10 am

      From my experience of the last 9 months. No, my imagination has never been as open and diverse as it is today. Why? For example on image generation with Stable Diffusion, you got with every generation with the same prompt totally different results and because they are often not exactly that what you had in mind their results can be very inspiring. As long as the AI can’t read your mind, it will never create exactly what you imagine in your head. AI is here much more like a commissioned work, but with the possibility to intervene yourself, e.g. with Inpaint.

  26. Faiz Mohammad Khan

    September 2, 2023 at 2:51 pm

    Superb 👍🏼

  27. Dhruv Bahri

    September 2, 2023 at 5:21 pm

    Bro your so good! I think this is the best time to be in the VFX industry. Literally can’t imagine anyone not going frame by frames to roto, or even changing day to night in few minutes! This is wild for me, I’m jealous they’re getting it this easy 😮 👏🙌🙌good work brother @bilawalsidhu

  28. Bee Cee

    September 2, 2023 at 5:25 pm

    A TED talk about stolen art using datasets? Wow. What’s he going to do next, pirate music?

  29. m.eko kuswanto

    September 2, 2023 at 7:56 pm

    Interesting

  30. Projeto Família Sustentável

    September 3, 2023 at 4:14 am

    🛑 ESSA AGENDA MALDITA TEM QUE CAIR PELA VERDADE.. ACORDEM E SAIAM DA MATRIX.!!!🙌

  31. World Street Food 🍛 🌮

    September 3, 2023 at 4:14 am

    🛑 ESSA AGENDA MALDITA TEM QUE CAIR PELA VERDADE.. ACORDEM E SAIAM DA MATRIX.!!!🙌

  32. Blizado

    September 3, 2023 at 10:06 am

    It was very interesting to see where you are coming from and where we might be going. AI is really amazing, even when we are still on the early beginning of AI. I hope in the futures people are less afraid of AI than they are today.

  33. science 21

    September 3, 2023 at 2:22 pm

    RIP Douglas Lenat.

  34. Hiệp Khách Hành

    September 3, 2023 at 8:57 pm

    Thanks ❤❤

  35. Paul danne Lachica

    September 4, 2023 at 1:31 am

    Nice

  36. Hisyam Mohd

    September 4, 2023 at 11:31 pm

    🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:

    00:04 Bilawal Sidhu discusses his lifelong quest to blend reality and imagination, driven by his fascination with computer graphics.
    01:33 NeRFs, an AI technique, can create detailed 3D representations of the real world from 2D images, revolutionizing reality capture.
    02:35 Inpainting and ControlNet techniques enable the augmentation and transformation of existing imagery with incredible speed and realism.
    04:02 AI technology can enhance the beauty of natural landscapes and dynamic scenes, potentially revolutionizing augmented reality and 3D rendering.
    05:31 AI-powered tools are simplifying creative processes, making it easier for the next generation of creators to blend reality and imagination seamlessly.

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  37. Franklin Styne Iyadurai

    September 5, 2023 at 12:09 am

    🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:

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  38. education

    September 5, 2023 at 12:36 am

    Ok

  39. PoppingNA

    September 5, 2023 at 8:51 pm

    Awesome talk man — excited to see you make waves in this space

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