General Video Understanding with AI
Last Updated on July 25, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Louis Bouchard
Originally published on Towards AI.
What does such a model understand when it sees such a picture or, even more complex, a video?

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Originally published on louisbouchard.ai, read it 2 days before on my blog!
We’ve seen AI generate text, then generate images and most recently even generate short videos, even though they still need work. The results are incredible when you think that no one is actually involved in the creation process of these pieces and it only has to be trained once to then be used by thousands of people like stable diffusion is. Still, do these models really understand what they are doing? Do they know what the picture or… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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