Dan Ring — Senior Machine Learning Team Lead, Chaos

0:04:05 Analyzing surgery videos

0:11:32 Joining Foundry and using machine learning in Nuke 

0:16:15 How AI tools are trained

0:18:25 What is Copycat?

0:24:18 Why we need good-quality training data with HDR

0:27:03 How generative AI works

0:31:08 CLIP, image captioning, and diffusion

0:36:38 Ray tracing, rasterization, and AI

0:41:38 Light fields and machine learning

0:46:15 The differences between Gaussian Splats and NeRFs

0:50:42 Gaussian Splats and ray tracing

0:54:13 Chaos' Innovation Lab and its initiatives

0:58:23 Keeping up with the rapidly changing world of tech

1:01:58 Are we on an AI hype train?

1:07:05 Improving how AI works

1:12:48 Machine learning for Chaos users

1:16:53 AI won't replace this one VFX job

1:21:48 Will AI be able to direct people?

1:27:33 How Chaos is handling the ethics of datasets

1:33:35 Hallucinations and bias

1:38:35 How Dan is using AI at home