Answer: Check out Corridor Digital 💡

Back in late-Feb 2023, Corridor & the Corridor Crew (6.26M YT followers) launched “Anime Rock Paper Scissors”, a revolutionary pro-level anime short film using Stable Diffusion to create all of the custom 2D animation. Last month, they were back with “Anime Rock, Paper, Scissors 2” where they explore new methods that they developed after their first film’s production and release.

Why this matters?

They’re pioneers in the creative space exploring the messy world of new technology, but their first focus is always “what’s the story”?

After receiving backlash from their first film for “ripping off” existing anime content, they took the message to heart and employed character artists & designer, Josh Newland, to create the look development for the film, much like a traditional animation would be approached.

 Corridor Digital 💡

Notable moments

Their artist, Josh, talks about the technological impact on artists and more importantly, the impact they can provide while shaping these new tools 👉 7:57 - 9:25 

• On relevance of artists & storytellers: “[If some say] this is so easy to create, why hire animators? That’s true, if you want to tell the most generic diluted story that’s been told a thousand times.”

• On fear of innovation: “The best possible thing for [this generative AI technology] is that creatives descend on it, ones that actually have moral compasses and passions and things that they care about. Because this generation can provide the template that future generations use when asking themselves “what’s the right way to handle this [technology and impact]?”

Also awesome points from Nico, Corridor’s Co-founder:

• Overall sentiment: “Who would have thought cutting edge tech like this would be in our hands for us to be able to play with... they have a really satisfying story to tell and they want it to be heard."

• On the unrelenting speed of innovation: “The only that will stop changing is us if we decide to standstill.”

  What BTS here!
  Watch Rock, Paper, Scissors here!

  If you’re technically inclined, and want to see how this film was made, Corridor made a one-hour click-by-click tutorial (no referral links, just props!)

• Apple is reportedly spending millions of dollars a day to train advanced AI models like conversational agents.

• Apple's most advanced large language model is called Ajax GPT internally. It has over 200 billion parameters, more than GPT-3.5 that powers ChatGPT.

• Apple has multiple AI teams working on models for conversation, visual intelligence, multimodal AI, and more.

• Potential uses for Apple's AI work include chatbots for customer service and automating tasks with Siri.

Definition: Discriminative Models

Models that classify a data example and predict a label. For example, a model that identifies whether a picture is a dog or a cat.