Future You: A Conversation with an AI-Generated Future Self Reduces Anxiety, Negative Emotions, and Increases Future Self-Continuity

no code implementations • 21 May 2024 • Pat Pataranutaporn, Kavin Winson, Peggy Yin, Auttasak Lapapirojn, Pichayoot Ouppaphan, Monchai Lertsutthiwong, Pattie Maes, Hal Hershfield

We introduce "Future You," an interactive, brief, single-session, digital chat intervention designed to improve future self-continuity--the degree of connection an individual feels with a temporally distant future self--a characteristic that is positively related to mental health and wellbeing.

AI-generated characters for supporting personalized learning and well-being

1 code implementation • Nature Machine Intelligence 2021 • Pat Pataranutaporn, Valdemar Danry, Joanne Leong, Parinya Punpongsanon, Dan Novy, Pattie Maes & Misha Sra

Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is referred to as artificial intelligence (AI)-generated media.

Face Reenactment Neural Rendering +2

Txt2Vid: Ultra-Low Bitrate Compression of Talking-Head Videos via Text

1 code implementation • 26 Jun 2021 • Pulkit Tandon, Shubham Chandak, Pat Pataranutaporn, Yimeng Liu, Anesu M. Mapuranga, Pattie Maes, Tsachy Weissman, Misha Sra

Video represents the majority of internet traffic today, driving a continual race between the generation of higher quality content, transmission of larger file sizes, and the development of network infrastructure.

Talking Face Generation Talking Head Generation +2