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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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What I want to see is a model that can generate 3D models for use in applications such as Blender. It would provide a good starting point for someone with talent to make beautiful. Or just save people like me time for making games.

I've been looking into some of the 3D model generators this past week, and there is some work happening in that field. See the following non-exhaustive list:

https://github.com/snap-research/NeROIC

https://github.com/threedle/text2mesh

https://github.com/AutodeskAILab/Clip-Forge

https://nv-tlabs.github.io/GET3D/

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

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A lot of people saying it's over for traditional movie-making - lmao. I look at these and see nothing but uncanny valley artifacts, and I don't think it will improve much from here. It's like self-driving cars. They use almost very effective statistical models, certainly better than our previous models, but they never seem to shake off that "almost" and become truly effective.

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

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The > A golden retriever eating ice cream on a beautiful tropical beach at sunset, high resolution example is terrifying.

It is, but to make up for it we got a man drifting a horse.[1]

[1] https://makeavideo.studio/assets/A_knight_riding_on_a_horse_...

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

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I don’t want to think reality is a simulation, but wouldn’t our everyday experience being generated by a neural network be far far simpler to achieve than a universe of infinite minuscule atoms all interacting.. like ozcam’s razor is pointing towards our lives being a realistic dream. Like in 10 years you could plug this tech into high end VR and get a prompted reality dynamically generated that would be indistinguis…

Once I heard or realized (don't remember which) that simulation theory is just deism for techies, I stopped entertaining these ideas.

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

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I don’t want to think reality is a simulation, but wouldn’t our everyday experience being generated by a neural network be far far simpler to achieve than a universe of infinite minuscule atoms all interacting.. like ozcam’s razor is pointing towards our lives being a realistic dream. Like in 10 years you could plug this tech into high end VR and get a prompted reality dynamically generated that would be indistinguis…

If you're assuming each atom is independent of other atoms then yes. But if you believe the universe is deterministic and atoms are just following the laws of physics then you can think of the universe as nothing more than a computer with electrons instead of atoms just floating around.

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

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A lot of people saying it's over for traditional movie-making - lmao. I look at these and see nothing but uncanny valley artifacts, and I don't think it will improve much from here. It's like self-driving cars. They use almost very effective statistical models, certainly better than our previous models, but they never seem to shake off that "almost" and become truly effective.

There's always the next curve of improvement by this tech or something else.

It's just the first version and seeing Stable Diffusion come out while openai's tools were coming out were something to remember and think about.

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

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A lot of people saying it's over for traditional movie-making - lmao. I look at these and see nothing but uncanny valley artifacts, and I don't think it will improve much from here. It's like self-driving cars. They use almost very effective statistical models, certainly better than our previous models, but they never seem to shake off that "almost" and become truly effective.

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.

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

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A lot of people saying it's over for traditional movie-making - lmao. I look at these and see nothing but uncanny valley artifacts, and I don't think it will improve much from here. It's like self-driving cars. They use almost very effective statistical models, certainly better than our previous models, but they never seem to shake off that "almost" and become truly effective.

> I don't think it will improve much from here That's a bold prediction. Why do you think that? The first thing I thought was the exact opposite. This isn't very good, but it's only version 1. Motion pictures are less than 150 years old. In another 150 years I bet virtual filmmaking will progress a lot.

I don't agree with the prediction but I will say that at least in America, we've been overly optimistic about almost everything since world war II. Is particularly painful when you look at the imagination of science fiction versus the reality of science in the realm of say space travel, especially interstellar travel. This imagination effect gets the public behind your new invention in part because it seems to be just the beginning the start of something new. The tip of the iceberg. But sometimes it's really just a tiny bit of ice.

For the record, I'm actually rather bullish on self-driving cars. There's nothing physically impossible about solving the problem, but I'm not surprised it's harder than it sounds. But I don't see humans being fundamentally prevented from solving the problem in the same way that humans are fundamentally prevented from ever engaging in everyday space travel.

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