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Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by quadcore »

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?

Like you said, it's a feeling. Once you've identified it, just remember you have many many buttons that can be pushed to generate feelings. It's just a program installed long long long ago. Visualize that, breathe and just laugh at that poor bash program.

There is some usefulness to those feelings - this announcement will probably have an impact on your life soon enough. But you cant let every button push and distant threat pull you down can you.

Also remember, life has its own ways: as far as you know, it could also be the beginning of the best days of your life.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by petesergeant »

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?

Honestly? Just an embrace of cheerful, curious nihilism. Between this and climate change, we are entering interesting times, and remembering that I’ll be able to “opt-out” at a time of my choosing, and then embracing the time left with happiness and curiosity.

“Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will … Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.”

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by razemio »

cdme wrote: post #562

I don't understand why anyone would find these videos compelling enough to watch. They're visually polished, but totally uninteresting.

Then change the prompt? It is a demo afterall. From a creators perspective, those shots are awesome for inspiration and / or a tool to create something bigger.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by survirtual »

darkhorse13 wrote: post #460

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 genui…

The compute and innovations behind it should be owned by the planet, not by a handful of billionaires. It is far too powerful to be controlled by such a small group of humans, who decide what is "safe" and what isn't.

It took billions of years for all of our ancestors to enable this technology, and now a handful claim it for themselves. The GPUs to run these models cost $20,000+ each, and only the ultra-rich can afford to have that compute.

Compute power needs to be radically redistributed and equalized across the board. This is too much power.

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Post by sunshine_reggae »

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?

Well, what's ChatGPT's answer to your fears?

I suppose it's going to be something like "You're asking for more purpose in your life? Sorry, I can't let you do that, Dave."

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by VeejayRampay »

break_the_bank wrote: post #160

In less than a few hours Gemini 1.5 is old news. Sam is doing live demos on Twitter while Google just released a blog. Didn't think Google would be the first of the Facebook, Apple, Google and Microsoft to get disrupted.

it's not old news and it's actually way more impressive

it's just that people want to root for OpenAI more because hype

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by kromem »

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?

There really isn't a moat.

Dall-E was crazy and then suddenly people were doing the same thing on consumer hardware with an open model within a year.

Filmmakers being able to bring their vision to life using generative models is going to create such a huge expansion of the market.

What people don't realize is that long term these advances are a death knell for mega-corps, not for individuals.

Why do I need to kiss Weinstein's ass to get my movie made if I can do it with a shoestring budget and AI and have the same assistance to create marketing materials, etc. I need a lot less money to break even and can focus on niche markets aligned with my artistic vision instead of mass appeal to cover costs plus the middlemen involved in distribution and production.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by throw310822 »

bamboozled wrote: post #553
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’m a bit thrown off by the fact the mammoths are steaming, is that normal for mammoths ?

Good question :)

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by adam_arthur »

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?

The way to generate the wealth required for something like UBI requires large scale technology driven deflation in the cost of goods and services (in real terms).

Advances like this are necessary steps to get us there.

People will be displaced in the short term, as they have for every other large scale advance... Cars, assembly line and so on. Better to focus on progress and helping those disaffected the most along the way

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