This is super cool. So many innovations come to mind. But it makes me wonder what will come from having the ability to virtually experience anything we want. It'll take a while, but I'm hoping we'll eventually want to go outside more instead of less.
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#182I am a CG artist and Director and this made me so sad. I am watching in horror and amazement. I am not anti AI at all, but being on the wrong side of efficiency, for the individual this is heartbreaking. its so much fun to make CG and create shots and the reason its hard (just like anything) makes it rewarding.
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#183OpenAI demonstrating the size of their moat. How many multi-million-dollar funded startups did this just absolutely obsolete? This is so, so, so much better than every other generative video AI we've seen. Most of those were basically a still image with a very slowly moving background. This is not that. Sam is probably going to get his $7T if he keeps this up, and when he does everybody else will be locked out foreve…
> 100% they would pay a lot of money to be able to hang out with Joe Rogan, or some only fans person, and those pornstars or podcasts hosts will never disagree with them, never get mad at them, never get bored of them, never thing they're a loser, etc.
I think immersive games will also be a big application. Games AI will also benefit from being more strategically intelligent and from being able to negotiate, in a human-like fashion, with human and other AI players. The latter will not only make games better, it will also improve the intelligence of AIs.
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#184Those samples are incredibly impressive. It blows RunwayML out of the water. As a layman watching the space, I didn't expect this level of quality for two or three more years. Pretty blown away, the puppies in the snow were really impressive.
i'm not surprised given what was there before, the stills from stability was really good, and it's "just" generating new frames.
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#185I am genuinely impressed.
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#186OpenAI demonstrating the size of their moat. How many multi-million-dollar funded startups did this just absolutely obsolete? This is so, so, so much better than every other generative video AI we've seen. Most of those were basically a still image with a very slowly moving background. This is not that. Sam is probably going to get his $7T if he keeps this up, and when he does everybody else will be locked out foreve…
> OpenAI demonstrating the size of their moat. How many multi-million-dollar funded startups did this just absolutely obsolete?
For posterity since the term has been misused lately, having a very good product isn't a moat in the business sense. There's nothing stopping a competitor from creating a similar product (even if it's difficult), and there's nothing currently stopping OpenAI's users from switching from using Sora to a sufficient competitor if it exists.
Sora is more akin to a company like Apple/Google a decade ago using their vast resources to do what a third-party does, but better (e.g. the Sherlocked incident: https://www.howtogeek.com/297651/what-does-it-mean-when-a-co...).
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#187In less than a few hours Gemini 1.5 is old news. Sam is doing live demos on Twitter while Google just released a blog. Didn't think Google would be the first of the Facebook, Apple, Google and Microsoft to get disrupted.
I disagree, Gemini 1.5 is still impressive (if true) with the 10 million context size!
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#188Pretty sure you plus tier not be using this free, too much processing power needed
I love the downvote, could be an OpenAI employee in the know.
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#189Did anyone else feel motion sickness or nausea watching some of these videos? In some of the videos with some panning or rotating motion, i felt some nausea like sickness effect. I guess its because some details were changing while in motion and I was unable to keep track or focus anything in particular. Effect was stronger in some videos.
I do. My hypothesis is that there isn't really good bokeh yet in the videos, and our brains get motion sick trying to decide what to focus on. I.e. too much movement and *too much detail* spread out throughout the frame. Add motion to that and you have a recipe for nausea (at least for now)
You can shoot with high depth of field and not cause motion sickness. Aerial videography does that every day, and it's no more difficult in general to parse than looking out an airliner window or at a distant horizon would be.
I suspect GP is closer to on the money here, in suspecting the issue lies with a semblance of movement that isn't like what we see when we look at something a long way away.
I didn't notice such an effect myself, but I also haven't yet inspected the videos in much detail, so I doubt I'd have noticed it in any case.
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#190This is insane. But I'm impressed most of all by the quality of motion. I've quite simply never seen convincing computer-generated motion before. Just look at the way the wooly mammoths connect with the ground, and their lumbering mass feels real.
Motion-capture works fine because that's real motion, but every time people try to animate humans and animals, even in big-budget CGI movies, it's always ultimately obviously fake. There are so many subtle things that happen in terms of acceleration and deceleration of all of the different parts of an organism, that no animator ever gets it 100% right. No animation algorithm gets it to a point where it's believable, just where it's "less bad".
But these videos seem to be getting it entirely believable for both people and animals. Which is wild.
And then of course, not to mention that these are entirely believable 3D spaces, with seemingly full object permanence. As opposed to other efforts I've seen which are basically briefly animating a 2D scene to make it seem vaguely 3D.