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Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by thepasswordis »

minimaxir wrote: post #186
thepasswordis wrote: post #100

OpenAI 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…

OpenAIs moat is their massive access to capital and compute. That’s what I mean.

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Post by nomel »

aantix wrote: post #115
thepasswordis wrote: post #100

OpenAI 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…

That's an interesting take - podcasts have become a replacement for companionship and conversation.

It looks like some people are just learning that introverts exist. Maybe there's something interesting about how more common it is, but none of this is new.

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Post by M4v3R »

> The model can also take an existing video and extend it or fill in missing frames

I wonder if it could be used as a replacement for optical flow to create slow motion videos out of normal speed ones.

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Post by swamp40 »

crazygringo wrote: post #190

This 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 obvio…

It's been trained on videos exclusively. Then GPT-4 interprets your prompt for it.

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Post by DylanBohlender »

nuz wrote: post #61

This is the second time OpenAI has released something right at the same time as google did (Gemini 1.5 Pro with 10M token context length just now). Can't just be a coincidence

They absolutely sat on this and waited until a competitor announced something, so they could suck the air out of the room.

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Post by birriel »

With the third and last videos (space men, and man reading in the clouds), this is the first time I have found the resolution indistinguishable from real life. Even with SOTA stills from Midjourney and Stable Diffusion I was not entirely convinced. This is incredible.

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Post by fassssst »

kweingar wrote: post #206

Obviously incredibly cool, but it seems that people are incredibly overstating the applications of this. Realistically, how do you fit this into a movie, a TV show, or a game? You write a text prompt, get a scene, and then everything is gone—the characters, props, rooms, buildings, environments, etc. won’t carry over to the next prompt.

It generates up to 1 minute videos which is like what all the kids are watching on TikTok and YouTube Shorts, right? And most ads are shorter than 1 minute.
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