When will one of these projects finally name themselves “Infinite Jest”? I’m guessing when the perfect pornography can be generated for you immediately, it will have an entertainment-to-death effect on a number of people. An Infinite Jest for conspiracy theories; one for shit posts, etc.
Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text
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#302What'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…
IMHO this particular avenue is a dead end. It's an extraordinarily impressive dead end but it's clear that there's no real understanding here. Look at this video of the knight riding a horse: > https://makeavideo.studio/assets/A_knight_riding_on_a_horse_... The horse's face is all wrong The gait is wrong The interface with the ground & hooves is wrong The knight's upper body doesn't match with the lower and they're n…
"Don't look where we are right now but imagine where we'll be two more papers down the line"
- Two minute papers
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#303I was pretty surprised to see that the WebVid-10M Dataset used as part of this training - https://m-bain.github.io/webvid-dataset/ - consists entirely of video preview clips scraped from Shutterstock!
I built a quick search engine over that data:
https://webvid.datasette.io/webvid/videos
Wrote more about that here: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/29/webvid/
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#304I really don’t understand the fear people have about these things. have I missed something and everyone else was placing huge value in out of context videos and pictures? if you read “France declares war on Canada”, you’re not gonna believe it unless it’s coming from an extremely reputable source. so why would you trust a random unsourced video? the absolute worst thing that’s gonna happen is that video-based social…
Think of the SEO blogspam from corporate sites that buried genuinely interesting hand-made websites on search results pages. That is what AI-generated video is going to do to YouTube and pretty soon, Netflix and all other other streaming services.
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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.
Really have a feeling that if you don’t build your nest egg in the next 5-10 years, its going to become incredibly hard.
Why will conventional investments have value? Why will it be safe? I could be retired and well off with say even 5 or 10 million and then large numbers of people lose their jobs, yet we can still make widgets and grow and distribute food with robot everything, society will fall apart. There will be fewer people with money to support themselves or buy things. I don't see the capitalist society in the US giving people basic income, but we won't need so many workers, and so anarchy.
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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.
That is nonsensical. Maybe one country might decide to try to stop it, the internet has shown that doesn't work.
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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.
> books written hundreds of years ago
How many of these books are representative of how average people spoke then?
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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.
Yeah, just like Facebook and Google can't operate in Europe, or the US isn't still spying on the whole world still. Those eu courts really control them.
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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 somewha…
Stable Diffusion does not generate nice UIs because it has not been trained to do so. It has mostly been trained on the "laion-improved-aesthetics" dataset, which includes "aesthetic" images. There are only very few UI mockups in there. You can explore the dataset here: https://laion-aesthetic.datasette.io/laion-aesthetic-6pls/im...
You could finetune the Stable Diffusion model to generate UI mockups and would receive much better results.
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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.
Yeah, just like Facebook and Google can't operate in Europe, or the US isn't still spying on the whole world still. Those eu courts really control them.
EU courts fined google just this week. Way to prove exactly how uninformed you are. There has been no reason to ban meta or google in EU so far, but you can ask RT how good their operations are at the moment.