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Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by hbn »

smusamashah wrote: post #122

Did anyone else feel motion sickness or nausea watching some of these videos? In some of the videos with some panning or rotating motion, i felt some nausea like sickness effect. I guess its because some details were changing while in motion and I was unable to keep track or focus anything in particular. Effect was stronger in some videos.

I think I feel a bit of queasiness but more from the fact that I'm looking at what I recognize as actual humans, and I'm making judgements about what kinds of people they are as I do with any other human, but it's actually not a human. It's not a person that exists.

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Post by lukan »

patall wrote: post #406
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…

I disagree, just look at the legs of the woman in the first video. First she seems to be limping, than the legs rotate. The mammoth are totally uncanny for me as its both running and walking at the same time. Don't get me wrong, it is impressive. But I think many people will be very uncomfortable with such motion very quickly. Same story as the fingers before.

Yeah, it looks good at first glance. Also the fingers are still weird. And I suppose for every somewhat working vid, there were dozens of garbage. At least that was my experience with image generation.

I don't believe, movie makers are out of buisness any time soon. They will have to incorporate it though. So far this can make convincing background scenery.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by xanderlewis »

cyrialize wrote: post #409

Does anyone know how to handle the depression/doom one feels with these updates? Yes, it's a great technical achievement, but I just worry for the future. We don't have good social safety nets, and we aren't close to UBI. It's difficult for me to see that happen unless something drastic changes. I'm also afraid of one company just having so much power. How does anyone compete?

I seem to be immune to it now. I’ve just accepted that I’m going to feel less and less useful as time goes by, and I should just enjoy whatever I can. Life will probably never be as good as it was for people 30 years older than me, but it’s not something that looks likely to change.

Nothing about the future looks particularly good, other than that medicine is improving. But what’s the point of being alive in such a sanitised, ‘perfect’, instant-dopamine-hits-on-demand kind of world anyway?

Just say to hell with it and bury yourself in an interesting textbook. Learn something that inspires you. It doesn’t matter if ‘AI’ can (or soon will be able to) do it a billion times better than you.

And be kind to those around you.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by cooper_ganglia »

It's always kinda crazy to me to see an emerging technology like this have it's next iteration in the development pipeline, and even after seeing the First Gen AI video models, even many of the HN people here still say, "Meh, not that impressive."

Brother, have you seen Runway Gen 2, or SVD 1.1? I'm not excited about Sora because I think it looks like Hollywood animations, I'm excited because an open-source 3rd-Gen Sora is going to be so much better, and this much progression in one step is really exciting!

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by lukan »

cyrialize wrote: post #409

Does anyone know how to handle the depression/doom one feels with these updates? Yes, it's a great technical achievement, but I just worry for the future. We don't have good social safety nets, and we aren't close to UBI. It's difficult for me to see that happen unless something drastic changes. I'm also afraid of one company just having so much power. How does anyone compete?

We are close to 1.5 degree global warming. And the world is rather busy with war, than actually make a unified effort to change things. That is depressing to me, not that AI can make somewhat convincing background scenery movies (as standalone videos I do not found them convincing, all in all impressive, sure, but too many errors).

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by [deleted] »

davidbarker wrote: post #69
treesciencebot wrote: post #14

This is leaps and bounds beyond anything out there, including both public models like SVD 1.1 and Pika Labs' / Runway's models. Incredible.

I'm almost speechless. I've been keeping an eye on the text-to-video models, and if these example videos are truly indicative of the model, this is an order of magnitude better than anything currently available. In particular, looking at the video titled "Borneo wildlife on the Kinabatangan River" (number 7 in the third group), the accurate parallax of the tree stood out to me. I'm so curious to learn how this is wor…

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Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by mikeInAlaska »

omega3 wrote: post #383
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…

Out of all the examples, the wooly mammoths one actually feels like CGI the most to me, the other ones are much more believable than this one.

I saw the cat in the bed grows an extra limb...

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by mtlmtlmtlmtl »

sayagain wrote: post #427
mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote: post #386

This is all very impressive. I can't help to wonder though. How is text-to-video going to benefit humanity? That's what OpenAI is supposedly about, right? We'll get some groundbreaking film content out of this in the hands of a few talented creatives, and a vast ocean of mediocre content from the hands of talentless people who know how to type. What's the benefit to humanity, concretely?

This vast amount of human talent and computational power could be channeled into fighting disease and death.

I'm not quite sure what you mean, so I'll ask for clarification. Are you saying this technology can be channeled into fighting disease and death, or that the man hours and computational freed up by this technology can be channeled?

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by darkhorse13 »

Does anyone else feel a sense of doom from these advancements? I'm definitely not a Luddite, I've been working professionally as a programmer for quite some time now, but I just can't shake this feeling. And this is not in the "I might lose my job to this" kind of feeling, that's obviously there, but it's something deeper, more sinister. I don't think I can explain it properly.

Anyway, videos look incredible. I genuinely can't believe my eyes.

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