Is everyone aware that the talking paintings from Harry Potter are now a reality? This is no longer fiction. It's a crazy time we live in.

Just hang a tablet on the wall, give it vision and voice, bam, got.your talking painting. I've been wanting to make an 'avatar' inside a smart mirror with LLMs hooked up to it, I think that would be neat.

When I watched 'The Philosopher's Stone' as a child, I already dreamed of something like that becoming real. So cool.

you do realize the magical thing about those painting wasnt that a picture could be animated, right? it's that it was moving on a canvas videos did exist before harry potter, believe it or not

Even the everyday pictures in newspapers and photographs in Harry Potter have been reality for a while - Apple Live Photos. When I look at photos of my daughter from 8 years ago when she was a baby, I get that short glimpse of the moment and tiny sliver of sound - a preserved giggle, a flashed smile. It really is magical. Next up is the pensieve, aka Apple Spatial Video...

Hook it up with some lipsync tool and OpenAI's advanced voice mode API and now they can talk as well

It would be expensive but set up a tiny motion sensor, some Python code, and one of those picture frame flat TVs and boom! Harry Potter-style talking paintings.

I feel like we're getting to the point where anything is possible.

This is a very cool business idea. Load a small AI in a tablet/painting with some limited functionality, and you can sell this starting tomorrow