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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 giarc »

agitator wrote: post #233

What's mind blowing is that you can extrapolate where this is going to go. Eventually, you will be able to generate full movie scenes from descriptions. What's interesting to me is how this is so similar to human imagination. Give me a description and I will fabricate the visuals in my mind. Some aspects will be detailed, others will be vague, or unimportant. Crazy to see how fast AI is progressing. Machines are appr…

Would be interesting to input some existing screenplays into a future tool like this and see what comes out.

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

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Post by have_faith »

barbariangrunge wrote: post #156
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 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

From my personal perspective; knowing how something is made affects my interest in it. I guess that's why provenance ascribes value. I value human creativity and so I'll likely always seek out something created by craft than by shortcuts.

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

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Post by anigbrowl »

dang wrote: post #74
squidbeak wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a good example of the most abject type of Luddism: telling yourself that a fast-developing tech you happen to dislike is already at or near the limit of its potential and that defects you notice now will be there forever.

Please make your substantive points without name-calling. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's not name calling to make a critique of an argument. Luddism is a real term that describes a particular philosophical tendency that places itself in opposition to what it views as a naive technophilia.

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

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Post by user982 »

ThisIsMyAltFace wrote: post #263
danso wrote: post #178

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.

Because it's Star Trek technology without Star Trek society, and in fact anti-Star Trek society.

Well, anti-Federation society. Ferengi-owned holosuites.

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

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Post by nicoslepicos »

Really cool seeing this & excited to really start playing with it. 2023 is going to be funky!

It's pretty wild to see how quickly the space of Generative AI Media is coming along.

I started a newsletter on the topic, called The Art of Intelligence (GPT-3 came up with the name) with the first post going out last Friday on the topic of how far are we from AI generated videos, and simulated worlds like the Holodeck given the rapid progress of these visual A.I. Thought y'all might find it interesting: https://artofintelligence.substack.com/p/dall-e-stable-diffu...

This type of progress also reminds me of a really lovely publication from 2017 in Distill.pub, on the topic of these A.I. enabled creation tools - I think y'all would enjoy seeing what folks were thinking even then: https://distill.pub/2017/aia/

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Post by anigbrowl »

MichaelCollins wrote: post #149
mitchdoogle wrote: post #127

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Whatever their motivation, their ire is misguided and selfish. Is the world supposed to just sit and around and never innovate or try to become more productive? So people can have a job doing work better done by machines? I don't think so. The Luddites and any such analogs today are focused on the wrong thing - they should not attack new technology or the companies and individuals using them, but rather campaign for…

Maybe new technology should be restricted by default until regulation can catch up with it. I'm not sure, but the 'cheap shirts benefit everybody too much to pump the brakes' argument for unfettered innovation leaves me deeply unimpressed. IMHO the best argument for unfettered innovation is the impossibility of slowing innovation globally; it can be slowed in one country, but that country can't force all the rest to…

A valid point, but restrictions are often used to build or fortify fiefdoms.

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Post by skybrian »

moralestapia wrote: post #228
mjr00 wrote: post #140

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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.

Honestly, MidJourney, Stable Diffussion, et. al. have closed that 10% gap quite quickly (in months!). I'll give it two years, at most, until we get pretty good audio and video generation from AI.

For portraits maybe, but in general no, they have not. It's fairly easy to come up with objects they can't do well. (One example: a piano keyboard.)

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

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Post by mjr00 »

moralestapia wrote: post #228
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.

Honestly, MidJourney, Stable Diffussion, et. al. have closed that 10% gap quite quickly (in months!). I'll give it two years, at most, until we get pretty good audio and video generation from AI.

> Honestly, MidJourney, Stable Diffussion, et. al. have closed that 10% gap quite quickly (in months!).

Have they? If anything, the past few months has shown that after the initial hype dies down, people find the limitations very quickly. It was only weeks ago that people here and on Reddit were proclaiming that graphic designers and artists were no longer needed. But while Stable Diffusion is great at making somewhat surreal images of Jeffrey Epstein eating an apple in the style of Picasso, it's not very good at, say, making a sleek, modern user interface mockup for a bank's login portal. And it turns out graphic designers are currently only paid for one of those things.

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