Michael Seymour — Raising the bar

Get to know AI, your new digital colleague

How AI is creating ‘digital humans’ and what this means for the future of work.

Is AI set to help you in your job or replace you? People who don’t know how to work with digital humans may lose their positions to those who do.

Machine learning is enjoying new applications in writing, programming, art and the production of new technology. For example, AI can hold a believable conversation with a user (ChatGPT) or create images from input text (Stable Diffusion). Next, new ‘digital humans’ may be your new colleagues.

Mike, who makes digital people for a living, will discuss what we can expect in this new area and how you might work with this new AI technology.

Bio

Mike has a PhD in digital humans and AI from the University of Sydney. Mike’s focus is on interactive photoreal faces. He recently converted an entire Polish film to English, by modifying every actor’s face. As well as research and development, Mike has worked in film production, winning an AFI and being nominated for an Emmy.

He has also worked as a writer, consultant and educator and serves as an important link between researchers and the film and visual effects community. Mike co-founded the Motus Lab at the University of Sydney and explores digital humans using both traditional high-end computer graphics and advanced neural rendering and machine learning.