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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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Research paper: https://makeavideo.studio/Make-A-Video.pdf Examples: https://make-a-video.github.io/ Demo site: https://makeavideo.studio/ I am told live demo and open model are on the way.

They almost always say that but never deliver. Won't be out even in a year's time.

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

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It would have gotten rid of every single one of those if the only method for their production required a tech company to invest a 8-digit sum in R&D and said tech company was threatened with litigation.

Porn companies, Facebook, Uber, ... these are just the latest companies, in a long line, for whom huge lawsuits and fortune-sized settlements are simply a line item on the expense sheet.

Are you somehow under the impression that, if a government decides to impose a fine that will financially kill the company once and for all, it is incapable of it?

Incidentally, Uber has been banned in the entire country where I live for 8+ years now.

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

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I love this! But after trying it a few times I got this result :). So fascinating. https://thismoviedoesnotexist.org/movie/the-terminator Brings up the age-old question of how much the learning in these models is just memorization. Though in cases like these it’s hard to tell.

There are only so many stories to tell. The Terminator is a rehash of so many other previous stories. The real art is in putting it together so that it seems new and fresh and gets people exited about it. The Terminator 1920s style looks interesting.

> The Terminator is a rehash of so many other previous stories.

I know what you mean, but I also laughed at that.

"I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye." - Jack Handey

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

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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 :)

If they’re not trading with everyone else they’re not rich. Being rich /is/ the ability to trade a lot.

The idea that rich people will all leave and start a different rich-people-only economy that somehow takes all the economic activity with it isn’t how it really works, it’s the plot of Atlas Shrugged.

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Why do you need consumers when you have machines making most of what you want? Then you just need to be able to trade things with other people who have different machines and resources from yourself to get the bits you can't have made by your machines.

So you are saying everyone will have those machines?

Nope. He is saying power concentration will increase further. This is also Yuval Noah Harari's thesis. You can read about how that will get achieved here.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-n...

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

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Then the rich will have no consumers.

Why do you need consumers when you have machines making most of what you want? Then you just need to be able to trade things with other people who have different machines and resources from yourself to get the bits you can't have made by your machines.

Where do the inputs for the machines come from? ex: having a machine that generates CPUs out of sand and works for free would mean cheaper CPUs, but it would also mean a lot more employment in the sand industry, and there might not be a machine for creating sand.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

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

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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…

For those who are scared about this technology, it’s good to look at what AI has done to Chess. The best chess seems to be when AI is used along with humans. I think image and video AI will best be exploited when human input is also taken into account. There is still something special about human creativity, I think AI will just be another tool to expand that. At least, in the short term I would say 10 years perhaps.…

What does “best” mean here?

AI is the winningest in chess, but the real life purpose of chess is to produce interesting gameplay for people to watch, and so AI is less good than Magnus at that. You’d need the AI to throw games and write press releases.

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

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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.

EU wouldn’t ban homegrown technology. They’re making up laws an an excuse to punish Google for not being EU based, it’s not that Google happens to be violating the law.

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

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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.

EU wouldn’t ban homegrown technology. They’re making up laws an an excuse to punish Google for not being EU based, it’s not that Google happens to be violating the law.

The EU has had many sanctions against google, tried to force them to change various practices, just like the pointless attempts to get microsoft to make changes. None of them made any real difference.
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