Does a future with AI scare you? Excite you? Each of those things? Does it feel as if it’s opening up a world stuffed with possibilities which can be each sensible and terrible? If it’s any of that, I get you.

I’m frightened of the 2024 elections. Between fake news and AI images becoming universally available and superb, we face a very ugly election.

In case you’ve spent any time on Instagram, you should have seen photos edited using Photoleap and videos transformed with Videoleap. The corporate is showing off its next-gen video editing software that may copy one type of video to a different. It isn’t flawless, but it surely is head and shoulders above a number of the other technologies on the market.

To get a greater idea of what this future could appear like, I spoke to Zeev Farbman, co-founder and CEO of Lightricks. The corporate has been on the innovative of adding AI functionality to customer-facing tech, each within the aforementioned Photoleap and Videoleap apps and in the corporate’s research lab.

Look, I’m not naïve about this. AI is a tool like, say, dynamite. It might be used to blast through a mountain to construct a road, or you should use it to explode things essential to other people. Unlike dynamite, nevertheless, there appears to be little regulation around AI.

Right out the gate, Farbman stressed that lots of what we are able to accomplish with AI video is a continuation of what we’re already doing with photo AI. He’s not incorrect. Adobe added Content-Aware Fill to Photoshop in CS5 back in 2010. It used AI that’s several generations old, but it surely shows that we’re merely on a technology continuum here.

“In case you’re the world of image creation, you possibly can almost claim by now that it’s a solved problem,” said Farbman. “It’s not solved yet by way of user interfaces, because if you should use the most recent and best controls, it is advisable to download all types of weird open source tools and mix them together. It’s a messy process. But at the tip of the day, by way of research, we’re getting to a degree where, in case you know what you’re doing, you possibly can imagine any type of picture and create it.”

For an extended while, animations just like the video below have been the innovative of consumer AI video. They’re nifty, but there’s little or no consistency between frames. You get an interesting, psychedelic effect — but no one goes to mistake one of these video for the actual thing.

That’s about to alter very rapidly, nevertheless.