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Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

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Re: Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

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The > A golden retriever eating ice cream on a beautiful tropical beach at sunset, high resolution example is terrifying.

The hands throw me off. The same with the cat holding the remote... never thought that hands on animals would be able to trigger my uncanny valley response, but here we are

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#12
A lot of people saying it's over for traditional movie-making - lmao. I look at these and see nothing but uncanny valley artifacts, and I don't think it will improve much from here.

It's like self-driving cars. They use almost very effective statistical models, certainly better than our previous models, but they never seem to shake off that "almost" and become truly effective.

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#13
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This looks like the video equivalent of Dall-E 1. Hard to believe how far we've come so quickly. The paper talks about "pseudo 3D attention layers" that are used in place of temporal attention layers for each dimension due to memory consumption. It seems like AI research is vastly outpacing GPU development.

Indeed - it's not hard from a research point of view - it's hard from a compute perspective because adding one more dimension requires hundreds of times more compute.

Even then, these videos are only like 50 frames long - and a real movie you would want to be hundreds of thousands of frames long.

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#14
I don’t want to think reality is a simulation, but wouldn’t our everyday experience being generated by a neural network be far far simpler to achieve than a universe of infinite minuscule atoms all interacting.. like ozcam’s razor is pointing towards our lives being a realistic dream.

Like in 10 years you could plug this tech into high end VR and get a prompted reality dynamically generated that would be indistinguishable from our own.

Re: Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

#15

A lot of people saying it's over for traditional movie-making - lmao. I look at these and see nothing but uncanny valley artifacts, and I don't think it will improve much from here. It's like self-driving cars. They use almost very effective statistical models, certainly better than our previous models, but they never seem to shake off that "almost" and become truly effective.

> I don't think it will improve much from here.

Any more specific reason why you feel this way? Curious

Re: Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

#16

A lot of people saying it's over for traditional movie-making - lmao. I look at these and see nothing but uncanny valley artifacts, and I don't think it will improve much from here. It's like self-driving cars. They use almost very effective statistical models, certainly better than our previous models, but they never seem to shake off that "almost" and become truly effective.

> I don't think it will improve much from here

That's a bold prediction. Why do you think that?

The first thing I thought was the exact opposite. This isn't very good, but it's only version 1. Motion pictures are less than 150 years old. In another 150 years I bet virtual filmmaking will progress a lot.

Re: Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

#17

A lot of people saying it's over for traditional movie-making - lmao. I look at these and see nothing but uncanny valley artifacts, and I don't think it will improve much from here. It's like self-driving cars. They use almost very effective statistical models, certainly better than our previous models, but they never seem to shake off that "almost" and become truly effective.

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Re: Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

#18

I don’t want to think reality is a simulation, but wouldn’t our everyday experience being generated by a neural network be far far simpler to achieve than a universe of infinite minuscule atoms all interacting.. like ozcam’s razor is pointing towards our lives being a realistic dream. Like in 10 years you could plug this tech into high end VR and get a prompted reality dynamically generated that would be indistinguis…

That what we're seeing is really reality is the simpler explanation. Because the alternative is that what we see is a simulation ... inside another reality that has full complexity. Which increases the overall complexity. Thus, Occam's Razor says what we see is likely real and not a simulation.

Re: Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

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A lot of people saying it's over for traditional movie-making - lmao. I look at these and see nothing but uncanny valley artifacts, and I don't think it will improve much from here. It's like self-driving cars. They use almost very effective statistical models, certainly better than our previous models, but they never seem to shake off that "almost" and become truly effective.

> I don't think it will improve much from here That's a bold prediction. Why do you think that? The first thing I thought was the exact opposite. This isn't very good, but it's only version 1. Motion pictures are less than 150 years old. In another 150 years I bet virtual filmmaking will progress a lot.

I agree, it feels like this technology is progressing by leaps and bounds almost by the day.

Re: Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

#20

A lot of people saying it's over for traditional movie-making - lmao. I look at these and see nothing but uncanny valley artifacts, and I don't think it will improve much from here. It's like self-driving cars. They use almost very effective statistical models, certainly better than our previous models, but they never seem to shake off that "almost" and become truly effective.

It’s been like a month since people were saying this tech would be too hard to apply to video.
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