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So every week I like to make an end -of -week AI news breakdown video where I share everything

that happened in the world of AI for the week.

Usually those videos are very focused on some of the bigger labs.

They're the ones that get most of the news.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google, NVIDIA, companies like that.

However, there's often some really cool news that flies under the radar.

There's a lot of research going on and smaller tools that not as many people, including myself, are talking about right now.

So in this video, I want to share some of the cooler things

that I've come across recently that haven't made the bigger end -of -week news videos.

Let me know in the comments if you like this style of video,

and I'll probably make them more often and share some stuff that's not from the big labs.

But let's start here with Fish Audio.

Fish Audio released a model called Drama 3, and it's a text -to -speech model where you direct the

performance in plain English instead of picking from like a menu of emotional presets.

So like most voice tools, they'll give you a dropdown for happy, sad, angry, things like that.

Drama three, however, it lets you write the direction the way you'd like explain it to an actor.

You put it in square brackets right in the script.

So for example, here's some spoken text with no direction.

I'm fine.

Really go on without me.

And now here's one where there's some direction written in, barely holding it together, forcing a smile.

I'm fine.

Really.

Go on without me.

And you can even pick specific words.

Like right here, they specifically tell it to whisper, go on without me.

I'm fine.

Really.

Go on without me.

So you can like scope and affect two specific words.

You could drop in sound effects, things like a small laugh, shaky breath, and you could put them exactly where you want them.

I'm fine.

Really, go on without me.

You can even have multiple speakers with multiple voices.

You were there that night.

I was home, asleep.

Then why is your coat still wet?

It rained.

They even licensed

Uncle Roger's voice for the demo page, which is kind of hilarious.

Haiya!

Nephew, why you put ketchup in egg fried rice?

Fried rice need soy sauce, need MSG, need wok hay, not tomato sauce uncle roger cannot watch this

if you've ever watched like any of the uncle roger videos it's actually pretty spot on

if we take a quick peek at artificial analysis here we can actually see

that fish audio drama 3 here scores the highest on pronunciation

so it's really good at pronouncing words even scoring higher than 11 labs

and spacex ai's text -to -speech model which is one that i actually demoed in last week's news video.

However, when looking at the arena leaderboard preference,

which, you know, sort of did a blind taste test where people listen to a bunch of different models

and pick their favorites without knowing what model they were picking.

Well, it didn't quite do as well.

So, you know, it reads hard words better than almost anything else, but a lot of people still prefer other voices.

It also appears to be open weight available on hugging face.

It is a 36 billion parameter model.

So you're going to need some pretty decent hardware in order to run it.

People have reported that you need roughly a 46 gigabyte VRAM card,

or you can get away with 32 gigabytes with a community quantitized four bit version,

but neither of those are going to run on like most laptops.

A couple other quick notes that I found about this one.

So the license is free for commercial use, but only if you're making under half a million a year

which is probably a non -issue for most people the api is about 10 per million characters right now

but that is a launch discount that jumps to 50 after november 12th

and fish audio takes do vary so plan on generating a few

and keeping the best one and

if you are going to use the api double check

that you set the model to drama 3

because it often will quietly fall back to older models

and you'll still get billed even if you're using the older models

so make sure you check that but

if you head on over to fish .audio slash drama 3 click try drama 3 for free

you can play around with it right now and

if you make audiobooks or game dialogue

or anything with characters probably worth trying out all right

while we're talking about voices once you have

that voice performance you might want like a face to go with it well ByteDance recently released OmniHuman 2 .0.

Now this model will take a single image and an audio track,

and then it'll generate a video of the person talking or singing or acting it out.

Now this is the 2 .0 version.

And the biggest difference is that the previous version topped out at just 60 seconds.

This one will allow you to go up to five minutes in one continuous shot.

So you don't have to like stitch a bunch of short clips together.

and hope that you don't see the seams or hear the seams.

So here's some examples.

The kingdoms called it a legend.

Tonight, I make it real.

And it even works with singing. Did you catch that?

You can also add in text prompts to control camera moves or add things that weren't in the original photo.

Now it generates in 720p resolution and it doesn't just have to be humans.

It can work with like cartoon characters and animals and things like that as well.

Now, if I'm being totally honest, I still think these lip syncing models have a long way to go.

When I watch a video with like an AI lip sync attached to it, it still just like isn't working for me.

We're getting closer and closer.

I mean, like we're way better than we were a couple of years ago, but it still has a lot to be desired.

I don't know.

What do you think? let me know in the comments.

As far as pricing goes, the price on this one dropped from 12 cents a second

in the last model down to seven cents per second in this model.

So if you are making a full five minute video, it's still going to cost you about 21 bucks.

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Now, a few other quick things to note about this one.

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Everything I'm showing you is ByteDance's own demo reel.

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And some early viewers did notice like background shifting around in their clip.

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Again, it's only 720p you're not going to get 1080p or 4K out of this.

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And because this is only one photo plus any audio, there's some pretty obvious potential deep fake concerns with stuff like this.

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Although if you saw what I just saw, I don't think we have to worry about too many people being fooled just yet.

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This one is available now through Byte Plus and through their API.

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All right, now let's talk about one of my more favorite topics recently.

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I've been absolutely loving these.

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Let's talk about world models.

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So these are AI models that generate a video world that you could move around in.

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And Tencent's Arc Lab released one called World Crafter recently.

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And this one starts from just a single image or a single line of text.

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Now, one of the big issues that we've had with world models is

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that if you're inside a world model and you look away from something and then turn back, a lot of times it's like gone

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or changed the model only remembers the last few seconds of what it showed you

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and if you move around the room everything kind of goes wonky now world crafters fix is a memory

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that you look up by camera position so

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when you point the camera somewhere it pulls the past views

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that match where you're looking and feeds those back to the generator

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so when you turn back to the original restaurant it remembers what it saw the first time

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so they prove it with this little trick here they take the video the model generated

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and rebuild a 3d point cloud from it if the world were inconsistent

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that 3d reconstruction would come out as just like mush instead you get clean geometry

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and the camera path lines back up

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when it revisits a spot it handles moving things too like a character going out of frame

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and then later actually coming back into the frame like we

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can see with this horse video here where the camera takes the horse out of frame

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and then when the camera pivots back around to the right you can see

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that the horse is still there even though it was moving

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now on their own benchmark of 145 different scenes they say

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that it beats the other models they tested on revisit consistency

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and camera control but just keep in mind that that is their benchmark so you know take that with a grain assault.

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The code for this is available on GitHub right now,

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and there's even a version on hugging face that you can go and play around with right now.

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In my own testing, though, telling it what to generate, it's kind of not the fastest thing in the world, but eventually it gets there.

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ByteDance also showed off their own version of a world model recently at an event in Beijing.

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My buddy, Tim from Theoretically Media, he posted some footage that somebody sort of took during the event.

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So it's like this bootleg camera version.

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Now, the wildest demo they shared was they took a scene from Stephen Chow's movie,

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King of Comedy, and generated a brand new camera path through it.

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It's like reshooting a shot that was filmed decades ago.

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You can now get new angles on that shot.

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You can also type a description to get a world,

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spawn a giant spoon, and then climb it and walk through a portal from a room into outer space.

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Now there is a catch and that's that we can't use it yet.

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It doesn't even have a public name yet.

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And there's no release date.

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And the only footage I've actually seen of it was from people who recorded it at this event as you know,

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Tim from theoretically media shared here.

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So yeah, we'll keep an eye on that one, but I'll see you soon it looks pretty impressive real quick before

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we get back to the video

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i wanted to show you guys how i've been using

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this new feature dots from openai now i've talked about this in a recent ai news video

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and since then i've dug into it even more basically dots are these always on ai agents

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that you can assign ongoing responsibilities to

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and they keep on working on them even

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when you're not using chat gpt anymore

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so for example i've been using my dot to help me with my youtube analytics

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and updating them automatically every time I post.

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I connected it to my YouTube channel and it pulls views

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and engagement data to find patterns across my titles and topics and angles and post times.

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And I also have a shared space with my team where my dot keeps all this organized

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and creates new sub pages with weekly reports and video ideas based on what's working.

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What's cool is that each dot has its own cloud computer

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and can use chat GPT work

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and codecs to get things done it's powered by gpt6 astra

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and learns my preferences so it can proactively suggest things without me having to ask

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so check it out in the link in the description

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and thanks so much to open ai for sponsoring this portion of today's video all right

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so we already saw two world models trying to fix the

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memory problem well skyworks matrix game 4 .0 takes a completely different approach

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this one stops asking the ai to remember the world at

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all with a normal world model the ai is doing everything it's drawing the frame

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but it's also the physics engine the game rules and the memory

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when something leaves the screen the only record it ever existed is in the pixels the model already drew

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and that's kind of why things tend to vanish matrix game splits

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that job into two an ordinary game engine runs the game it knows where every enemy is what happens

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when you shoot something what's behind you it draws a cheap blocky low poly version of

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that scene then the video model's only job is to repaint

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that blocky frame so it looks finished

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so we can see in some of these models down here

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on the right is what the game engine actually draws on

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the left is what you see it's the same frame in the same moment

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but the engine handles the gameplay and the AI handles the look that's skinned over the gameplay.

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Since this game engine is keeping track of everything, the world's not going to forget a pyramid behind you is still in the engine's map,

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whether the AI is drawing it back in or not.

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Here's another example of a car game.

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You can see the blocky early rendered version and then AI putting its own graphics over the top.

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So the game engine only has to remember this

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and the ai does that there's also another piece

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if you ask for something the game rules don't cover a coding agent writes new rules into the engine

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and updates the prompt the video model uses

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so the world can change mid -game without the ai having to invent new physics on the fly down here

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we can see three games a medieval castle shooter an ancient egypt shooter

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and city racing these long play sessions can run up to about a minute

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and a half without any sort of cuts now there are some catches each game has its own model

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and each one is about five billion parameters each trained just for

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that scene so it's not really a general make me any game model

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and the output is 480 by 864

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so it's not anywhere near hd now the project page does talk about running on a single rtx 5090

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but the model card does say there's no guaranteed frame rate consumer gpu memory fit

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or exact scene reconstruction so it may not totally fit into your gpu's memory

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and fast camera moves and long sessions still can cause some drift

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and the actual training code isn't included but you can get the weights

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and the inference code under apache 2 .0 license

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so you can use them commercially

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now there is a hugging face space listed here for hugging apps matrix game 4 .0

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so you should be able to play around with it here they do have some examples

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that are pre -cached in

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if you want to check out some of those examples

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now personally i think this engine plus like ai paint job

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or ai reskin is a pretty realistic path to ai games at least more

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so than like asking a model to do everything turns out nvidia thinks

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so too next up let's talk about something

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that came out of nvidia called stream render h3

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this is actually a pretty similar concept to what we just looked at it uses kind of

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that same split code runs the world

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and then a video model draws

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it in real time the difference with this one is how

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little the game actually hands the ai matrix game gives the model a blocky 3d render nvidia gives

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it a color -coded map every pixel is a flat color

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that means road or grass or barrier

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or rival car there's no lighting no textures the video model actually draws everything you see

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so here's the game engine's own view the color map that it actually sends

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And then the final frame that, you know, the user sees now because the map carries no like looks at all,

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you can actually restyle the whole game by swapping one reference image.

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We can see here that this is all the exact same drive, but when we fast forward a little bit,

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they can swap out the scene for anywhere they want and put the exact same drive in any different scene.

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It's the same exact input.

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What we see in the middle, just rendered out in different locations and different settings during the day

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and things like that

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so one thing to notice here this is kind of one of the hard parts for this model is

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that the color map paints all of the rival cars the same exact color

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so the model has to actually remember on its own

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which car is which and make sure to keep the same paint job across the various cars

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so a fun fact about this model is they actually handed

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clod code the job of building a faster video decoder for this they gave it a speed target

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and then they had a working version running in the pipeline in about three hours.

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Now this does actually require some serious hardware.

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Each rendering step takes about 218 milliseconds.

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However, that's on eight GB 200 GPUs.

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These are like the chips that they put into data centers from Nvidia.

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So this isn't something you're going to be running on your gaming PC, at least not for a while.

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Also, it's only been trained on racing

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so far that's why all the demos are like race cars

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so you can put this one kind of next to matrix game

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which we just looked at

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and you get a decent picture of the trade -off matrix

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game aims for one consumer gpu at like lower resolution where nvidia is going for photo real

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but on a rack of data setter hardware okay this one's a little weird

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but i want to show it off because it's also kind of cool

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so odyssey the world model company

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that launched odyssey 3 not too long ago posted a clip saying

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they put a fruit fly brain inside their world model

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and now it flies around imagined worlds by itself

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so this fly brain wasn't actually created by odyssey

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it's a simulation built by a company called eon systems from

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a complete map of a fruit flies brain about 140 ,000 neurons and 50 million connections.

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Odyssey swapped out the virtual body that brain was hooked up to

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and connected it to a camera moving through an Odyssey three world.

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I don't know.

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I thought this one was fun, but there's like no paper, no code, no explanation of how the two are connected.

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And people in the comments did note that the fly never actually tries to land anywhere, which, you know, if it was a real fly,

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it probably would, but it's brought up a lot of questions about you know simulation theory like does this fly believe it's real

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and in a real world but it's actually the simulation and

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if so what are the implications of round simulation theory for you know humans

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and stuff we don't need to go down that rabbit hole though

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while you can't actually play with this fly flying around inside of odyssey 3

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you can actually mess around with odyssey 3 itself just head

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over to experience .odyssey .systems give it a prompt of what you want it to create, and you can actually interact in this world.

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I am steering this fox right now.

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I'm telling it to jump.

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I'm telling it which direction to go.

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I'm changing camera directions.

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All of this is me actually controlling this.

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Pretty cool.

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All right, moving into 3D.

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Preferred Networks, which is based in Japan, just released Telescope, which turns a set of photos of a place into a detailed 3D mesh,

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like from a single object all the way up to city blocks.

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Now the usual way to get a high quality mesh from

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photos is to spend a long time fitting a model to that one specific scene.

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Telescope actually skips all that.

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It's a generative model so it's learned what surfaces generally look like

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and it fills in gaps where you didn't get many photos.

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It also handles shiny and glass surfaces which normally wreck photo based 3D.

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So the name is actually the method itself.

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It builds the whole scene at low detail first, then zooms in on areas that need more detail and refines them like a telescope.

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The colors here show which level each surface came from.

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So if we look here, we have a Gaussian wrapping, which is sort of the standard method.

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And if you look at this, it looks pretty good, but it's lacking a lot of detail.

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Now, this is telescope and there's so much more detail here

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so here's the original Gaussian wrapping

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and here is telescope like it's a pretty big difference here's another example of Gaussian wrapping

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and when I move this over you can see their version

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and all of the details pop into focus

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now there is a little bit of a catch

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you do need a lot of photos to achieve

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this you can see this one took 256 this one also took 256 right here

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This one actually only took 56, which isn't too bad, and it can only rebuild what's inside the area your camera actually moved around.

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This is one we don't have any sort of real access to.

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It does say the code is coming soon, but it looks like a pretty promising leap from what we got out of Gaussian splatting.

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Here's another pretty cool one called Gaussi Animate, and this one's actually used for animating 3D characters.

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It's designed for rigging up characters that are soft on the outside

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but rigid on the inside so people in loose clothes animals

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or garments just on their own so a normal animation skeleton gives you control

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but a loose shirt or like a dog's belly doesn't move like bones

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so this adds on a whole bunch of other floating nodes

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on top these additional floating nodes sort of capture all the jiggle

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and flow and the additional physics that come along with the, you know, the cloth or the material on top of the bones.

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So we can see here that it finds this sort of shape, but then once it finds the shape,

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it actually puts a skeleton in the middle to figure out which parts need to actually be rigid.

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Once it figures out the points that need to be rigid, then it figures out what points need to sort of flow outside of the bones.

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So here's some other examples, like a clothed human, you have the skeleton, you've got the bones you've got the skinning

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and then everything combined where you can see the the dress sort of flow

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now you do need a captured motion sequence of the character first

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it's not going to just work from like a single image

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but the code for this one is available on github

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and available for research use right now all right now this is the last one

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and it's actually not ai but i just thought it was really cool

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so i wanted to share it anyway this one's called world gasha i think I'm pronouncing that right.

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And it's actually a free browser tool from a Japanese developer

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that actually creates random fictional regions that has mountains and rivers

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and coasts and towns and railways and race patties and almost anything you can imagine.

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And it draws it as like this manga style line art.

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Well, this one's actually not in that manga style line art.

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This is a randomly generated city, but you can see if I add it with the lines, you kind of start to get that look.

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You can also put it on lines and tone and you get like a black and white version.

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You can put it on this like clay mode.

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And this is again, a randomly generated seed.

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I could reroll the dice and it's going to build me a whole new town or city or whatever.

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So now I can zoom in on this city that it just created.

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We can also change it to downtown.

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It's going to build us a new city that looks like a downtown area or skyscrapers.

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It'll build us a new city

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and these are again all randomly generated every single time

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and you could zoom into different views

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so let's say we want like a top view

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we can look straight down on this city like this maybe want an eye level view of central street

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and it actually brings us into the city where we can look around

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and wander around in this city now imagine using something like this

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and then re -scanning it with like one of the ai models

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we were looking at earlier you can build a pretty primitive looking city

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and then use AI image or video models to reskin it into something really realistic

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and maybe even build scenes for like films and animations and stuff.

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Again, this is not actually an AI model.

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There's no outside data.

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It's just random numbers and math generating all of this.

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And if you do like a specific scene, you can actually export it as a PNG or an SVG or even a 3D object file.

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So you could theoretically create a world and then pull it into unreal engine

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and build a game inside of it or something like

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that i know i usually focus on ai stuff

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but really you know the theme of my channel is just cool stuff

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that i come across online that i want to share

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and sometimes it's not always ai

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but that's what i got for you today again

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i make a news video every single friday where i break down all of the news

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that came out in the ai world each week

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but it's usually the biggest stories with the most impact on the most amount of people

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i'm sort of trying to filter out the signal from the noise of everything that's going on

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and help you understand what might actually change what you do on a day -to -day basis

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and in doing that sometimes I miss some of these smaller research projects

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that don't get a ton of love

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and not a lot of people talk about

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and I find all this stuff really cool and really fascinating and

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if you go back like three years on my channel

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this is the type of stuff

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I used to talk about a lot more frequently until all of the big labs

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and big companies started having new launches every single week

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and I kind of shifted more focus to that

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but I want to get back to my roots a little bit

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and make these videos a little bit more often so

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if you like videos like this where I sort of dig

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and find some more underground things that are happening in the world of like AI

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and just cool tech research let me know I'll make sure to make more videos like this

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I'm planning on making at least one of these a month

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because it's just really fun for me to dig in and find some of this stuff.

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But again, that's what I got for you.

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If you like videos like this and you also want to be super looped in

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and informed on all the latest AI news, I'm going to keep up with all of that for you.

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I put out a video every Friday with all of the news.

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I also put out a newsletter twice a week.

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You can subscribe for free over at futuretools .io.

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But thanks so much for hanging out with me, nerding out with me today.

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There's a lot to nerd out on i really really appreciate you

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and hopefully i'll see you in the next one bye

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “11 AI Breakthroughs You Didn’t Know Existed”. This video has 385 sentences and 4734 words to shadow. The speech runs for 25:16. The speaker talks fast, about 187 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 84% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
generate verb	/ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹeɪt/	To bring into being; give rise to.
odyssey noun	/ˈɑ.dɪ.si/	An extended adventurous voyage, usually in search of home.
audio adjective	/ˈɔ.di.oʊ/	Focused on audible sound, as opposed to sight.
matrix noun	/ˈmeɪ.tɹɪks/	The cavity or mold in which anything is formed.
telescope noun	/ˈtɛl.əˌskoʊp/	A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.
bone noun	/boʊn/	A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
lab noun	/læːb/	A Labrador retriever.
hug verb	/hʌɡ/	To cling closely together.
simulation noun	/ˌsɪm.jəˈleɪ.ʃn̩/	Something that simulates a system or environment in order to predict actual behaviour.
render verb	/ˈɹɛn.dɚ/	To cause to become.
uncle noun	/ˈʌŋ.kl̩/	The brother or brother-in-law of one’s parent.
physics noun	/ˈfɪz.ɪks/	The branch of science concerned with the study of the properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy.
hardware noun	/ˈhɑɹdˌwɛɹ/	Fixtures, equipment, fasteners, tools, and devices used for general-purpose construction and repair of a structure or object. Also such equipment as sold as…
clip noun	/klɪp/	Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
wrap verb	/ɹæp/	To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
figure out verb	To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
come across verb	To change sides; to cross over to work for the opposition.
get back to verb	Return to (an activity)
move around verb	To relocate to new homes repeatedly; to not live in any one place for long.
put out verb	To blind (eyes).
break down verb	To stop functioning.
bring up verb	To mention.
check out verb	To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

Then why is your coat still wet?
Nephew, why you put ketchup in egg fried rice?
Did you catch that?
We're getting closer and closer.
What do you think?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	i've been using
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	I've come · you've ever watched · have reported
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	be desired · being fooled · was filmed
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	page, which is · model which is · people who recorded

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 69 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, cloth /klɒθ/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: simulation /ˌsɪm.jəˈleɪ.ʃn̩/, capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, shooter /ˈʃuːtəː/, reconstruction /ˌɹiːkənˈstɹʌkʃən/, mesh /mɛʃ/
Long words — get the stress right: reconstruction /ˌɹiːkənˈstɹʌkʃən/, explanation /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/, ordinary /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/, hilarious /hɪˈlɛə.ɹi.əs/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like generate, odyssey, audio.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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