S02E08 | Deepfakes: A very real technology with massive impact w/ Prof. Sebastian Marcel and Dr. Pavel Korshunov.

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Welcome to yet another episode of Info Under the Radar. Let me ask you, what’s common between Russia-Ukraine war, American Presidential election, and Tom Cruise.. nope not another Hollywood movie but rather they are all victims of DeepFakes. Under the hood, DeepFakes is a technology that comes under the AI umbrella. As the name suggests, it uses Deep Learning to generate Synthetic or Fake media.

To understand it better, we invited the very people who were responsible for popularising the term in the research community Prof. Sebastian Marcel and Dr. Pavel Korshunov.

They helped us understand: What is a DeepFake and what is not a DeepFake? Does it even have some use-cases outside the research community? How are social media companies fighting with deepfakes? What is the future of the tech and what excites the researchers in the near future? and much more

Tune in to understand the technology, the myth, the innovation that DeepFakes is.

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro

(06:06) Welcoming our guests. What is DeepFakes and what is not a DeepFakes

(21:45) Are there any positive use cases of DeepFakes

(31:25) Can we create people’s faces out of nothing OR do we need some actual human faces to create DeepFakes

(37:53) What is the success rate of these fake human faces creation?

(44:31) What are some use cases for people outside of Research community

(45:55) Star Wars has also used DeepFakes

(47:30) How accurate humans are in detecting DeepFakes?

(53:45) Ethical boundaries of DeepFakes

(61:40) Social media companies and DeepFake detection

Reach out to our guests:

Prof. Sebastian Marcel: https://www.idiap.ch/~marcel/professional/Welcome.html

Dr. Pavel Korshunov: https://www.idiap.ch/~pkorshunov/

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