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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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Post by zild3d »

consumer451 wrote: post #194
mjr00 wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A long time. Much like self-driving cars, AI can take you 90% of the way there, but the last 10% is the difference between music that sort-of-seems-competent, and music that people will actually listen to and enjoy.

Is it really the same though? A driving system which can only create a good outcome 90% of the time is not really useful as irl human safety is a factor. However, a creative system curated by a human could end up creating useful outputs, could it not?

100%, poor music output can be responded to with "next". poor self driving car output can be a collision

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Post by LambdaComplex »

ddalex wrote: post #176
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.

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?

Great idea!

Under the current system, the rich can do just that while everyone else literally starves to death :)

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

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Post by MichaelCollins »

cma wrote: post #196
MichaelCollins wrote: post #139

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Exactly. The simulation theory proponents almost always seem to presume the existence of some sort of being that deliberately created the simulation. What if the simulation is a complete accident that has arisen from the complex interaction of brainless bacteria competing for scarce resources on the surface of a big rock? An accidental simulation emerging from randomly initialized 'cellular automata' on one rock in a…

Because even if our reality came from that rock bacteria, we're on the cusp of creating simulations within and statistically beings may still expect to be in a deliberate simulation, if we think we'd eventually simulate more beings than exist.

The rules of the presumed host universe are unknown, but which do you guess is more common in ours? trillions upon trillions of rocks, may of them probably covered in organic goo interacting with itself, or intellectually sophisticated computer scientists deliberately designing simulations? I think it's got to be the goo.

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

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Post by mjr00 »

consumer451 wrote: post #194
mjr00 wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A long time. Much like self-driving cars, AI can take you 90% of the way there, but the last 10% is the difference between music that sort-of-seems-competent, and music that people will actually listen to and enjoy.

Is it really the same though? A driving system which can only create a good outcome 90% of the time is not really useful as irl human safety is a factor. However, a creative system curated by a human could end up creating useful outputs, could it not?

Obviously different safety outcomes, but ultimately it's the same idea: unless you can hit that last 10%, it's essentially useless. You could pump out AI songs that are about as good as the 10,000 songs that get uploaded to Soundcloud every day, but nobody listens to those already. It's really only the best Something that can be further refined by humans is more interesting. There's people looking into AI-based sample generation which is a lot more promising than full song generation, IMO.

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

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Post by agentwiggles »

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…

This one is too funny: https://thismoviedoesnotexist.org/movie/the-virginity-pact

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

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Post by ronsor »

trention wrote: post #195
CalRobert wrote: post #193

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I imagine plenty of companies in the rest of the world will happily make use of it.

Spoiler alert: EU can fine and (if needed) seize assets of companies based outside of the EU.

Only if those companies have EU assets*

Even still, if the EU chooses to regress, I can imagine a lot of non-EU-based companies—especially smaller ones—just choosing not to deal with them anymore

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

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Post by Xeoncross »

greenhearth wrote: post #200
jcims wrote: post #177

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…

No worries, mate, just another shiny toy. As far as us getting milked for every bit of money, this has been going on for some time now, nothing really new, right? Douglas Adams put it best - "I've been to the future. It's the same as anywhere else. Just the same old stuff in faster cars and smellier air."

What is interesting to me is the decline in both understanding and communication abilities. When I look at modern speech and compare it to books written hundreds of years ago the deficiencies are stark.

I can't imagine how poorly people will speak and mentally process emotions in 20 years.

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

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Post by samstave »

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…

Ha - getting app too busy errors so can’t see your site…
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