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

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Post by trention »

ronsor wrote: post #172
trention wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

A french court banning it will probably be a (short) precursor to an EU-wide ban which is effectively a worldwide ban. EU courts will be fining companies heavily if they don't comply which effectively means big tech no longer invests a penny in models. I use 'French court' here mostly because I believe it most likely to be firstly litigated there.

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

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Post by lucidrains »

bottlepalm wrote: post #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 indistinguis…

https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01540

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

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Post by zepolen »

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.

Yes because banning alcohol, drugs, porn, prostitution and profanity in music sure got rid of them!

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

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Post by tehsauce »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I think the opposite is true. I think we're closer to the beginning of a kind of arms race.

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

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Post by slhomme »

maxov wrote: post #179
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.

Yep, that's because GPT-3 was trained on real existing data, and it's quite a challenge to make sure the story plot is 100% fake. When it's too close from an existing film, it just sometimes gives it the same film title. I have in-between GPT-3 prompts to avoid that as much as possible, but sometimes real movie titles slips through the cracks. Something I hope to improve shortly.

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

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Post by munchler »

sh4rks wrote: post #174
electrondood wrote: post #168

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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?

Yes, this is called “the singularity” in AI circles. Personally, I don’t think it’s imminent, but it’s certainly worth some concern.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity

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

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Post by malauxyeux »

5350-uiop-1130 wrote: post #68

Wonder if all these things will bring about a kind of cambrian explosion of creativity. Imagine a future of Prompt Wizards, who are able to coax the AI to generate things in a very specific way. Although we would probably need a much greater level of human curation. The way algorithms curate on youtube and spotify just doesn't really hit the spot. Perhaps stability and Dall-e already kind of showed that the value is…

> Wonder if all these things will bring about a kind of cambrian explosion of creativity.

Maybe, if memes are the peak of creativity. (And who am I to judge?)

If we look at static images, the bar for distribution is zero and bar for creation is near zero since the arrival of these new AI tools – though it was circling zero before that.

And what seems to be most widely shared is memes, in my feeds anyway. When Stable Diffusion landed, people giggled about the president of my country rendered in the style of Grand Theft Auto. After a week of that my feeds went right back to memes.

Every human with an internet connection can draw like Picasso now, but it doesn't seem to matter. Because what we mostly seem to want is to take part in a conversation and get some validation, it seems to me.

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

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Post by soperj »

maxov wrote: post #179
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.

Yeah, just got: https://thismoviedoesnotexist.org/movie/the-legend-of-zelda-...

It's crazy that it just made up those names...

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