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

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Post by dwohnitmok »

dwohnitmok wrote: post #137
sixQuarks wrote: post #128

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For those who are scared about this technology, it’s good to look at what AI has done to Chess. The best chess seems to be when AI is used along with humans. I think image and video AI will best be exploited when human input is also taken into account. There is still something special about human creativity, I think AI will just be another tool to expand that. At least, in the short term I would say 10 years perhaps.…

> The best chess seems to be when AI is used along with humans. I don't think this is true anymore. I don't think I've heard about successful centaur chess games in years. I would love to be wrong there though (in particular if anyone knows about how correspondence chess games have been played in the last 2 or 3 years with the availability of Leela Zero and Stockfish NNUE).

Found this interesting article http://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2021/02/correspondence-c... which linked to this thread on the topic: https://talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=76382

Based on that thread, it looks like centaur chess is close to dead.

> Human input in top-level ICCF [correspondence games with chess engine support] games is now 99% eliminated, other than personal preference in selection of openings.

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

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Post by ronsor »

trention wrote: post #162
dotsam wrote: post #142

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Don't worry, humans will still be relevant for ~10 years! . (and then regrettably irrelevant thereafter). I think it is a legitimate worry, as the pace of progress is considerable. These tools are impressive, and are only going to get more impressive: more people should be talking about where this is headed.

These models are literally one French court decision away from being banned and investment in them being completely halted. So I wouldn't worry too much about them specifically.

Why French court? If other countries don't ban them, France will just be hurting itself.

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

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Post by colordrops »

anonymouse008 wrote: post #113
indigodaddy wrote: post #109

So how long before we can “Hey music-stable-diffusion-service,” play me “relaxing baroque violin and flute music in the style of game of thrones” ?

I think we all can view a video of 'nails on a chalkboard' before we hear audio of nails on a chalkboard. For some reason, unacceptable uncanny sounds is a much wider valley than unacceptable videos/pictures. The hand holding is uncanny in the family video, but I'm fine watching it for a second - it doesn't cause pain the way that same error would in music.

I recall AI generated Beethoven years ago that sounded great. What happened to that research?

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Post by sh4rks »

electrondood wrote: post #168
barbariangrunge wrote: post #156

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I know some extremely hard working independent filmmakers who struggle so hard to get noticed. After this tech goes mainstream in 5 years and gets really good, I don’t know what they’re going to do

AI is eating the world, and the vast majority of people are not paying attention. I don't know what artists, truck drivers, Uber/Lyft/taxi drivers, delivery drivers, programmers, doctors, judges, fast food workers, etc. are going to do.

> programmers

Surely if we get to the point where programmers are no longer needed, humans have essentially been replaced by AI? Since the AI programmers could just program better and better AI?

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Post by ddalex »

electrondood wrote: post #168
barbariangrunge wrote: post #156

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I know some extremely hard working independent filmmakers who struggle so hard to get noticed. After this tech goes mainstream in 5 years and gets really good, I don’t know what they’re going to do

AI is eating the world, and the vast majority of people are not paying attention. I don't know what artists, truck drivers, Uber/Lyft/taxi drivers, delivery drivers, programmers, doctors, judges, fast food workers, etc. are going to do.

Perhaps humanity would happily share the benefits of machine work and we can all spend idyllics lifes eating, laughing and loving while exploring the galaxy?

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

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Post by jcims »

My daughter just had her first child, a baby boy that was born in the first week of July. The rate of progress in AI/ML technology is nearly unbelievable and my mind boggles at how it's going to influence his childhood (both good and bad).

My daughter was born in 1998. The Internet made a bit of a phase change during her early childhood and there were many instances where there was no precedent to guide a decision on what to do, so we just had to wing it as parents based on our own intuition and values. I certainly got some things wrong but we made it in one piece. I just worry a bit about what kind of new challenges my daughter will face in raising her son in this new environment, where powerful organizations wield unbelievable resources to create deep, life long co-dependencies on their revenue streams and intellectual empires.

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

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Post by danso »

It's funny that in terms of popular culture, we've all but accepted that Star Trek's Holodeck-type fantasy creation is something that will/should exist in a "proper" future. Yet all the intermediary technology to get there -- AI-generated visuals would be among the first such steps -- still makes most of us feel a little uncomfortable at first glance.

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

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Post by maxov »

slhomme wrote: post #121

As an owner of a Video Production studio, this kind of tech is blowing my mind and makes me equally excited and scared. I can see how we could incorporate such tools in our workflows, and at the same time I'm worried it'll be used to spam the internet with thousands and thousands of souless generated videos, making it even harder to look through the noise. A fun related experiment, I thought it was fun to see what ki…

I love this! But after trying it a few times I got this result :). So fascinating.

https://thismoviedoesnotexist.org/movie/the-terminator

Brings up the age-old question of how much the learning in these models is just memorization. Though in cases like these it’s hard to tell.

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

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Post by whoooooo123 »

MichaelCollins wrote: post #110
mikepurvis wrote: post #61

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Absolutely, particularly if you see this as simply another tool in the belt, like how Jurassic Park's thirty year old special effects absolutely stand the test of time because of them being a convincing mix of early CGI and puppetry. It's not hard to imagine that this kind of thing could end up doing a lot of the heavy lifting for things like background scenes in the future, opening up the kind of stuff we saw in The…

The first Jurassic Park holds up unusually well. They used CGI for things they couldn't convincingly do any other way, and used practical effects for almost everything else. And for the most part they hid the CGI well, they took a lot of care to mix it up with close ups of practical effects, the way they framed the shots to direct audience attention, etc. I think in a lot of modern stuff they go too far. They now use…

I can't stand it either. CGI excess has ruined movies.

This video does a good job of explaining why, I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY-zg8Oo8p4

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