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Re: Sora 2

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Post by paulcole »

cogman10 wrote: post #482
paulcole wrote: post #478

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I agree. It's really interesting that computers can make videos from sentences. This, however, isn't the first AI capable of doing that correct? Didn't Sora 1, Veo, and others come out before this making videos from sentences? Surely what makes this impressive isn't "This does what other people have done, including us Open AI". Since you edited, I will to respond to your inflammatory edit > Shocker lol > Like a guy w…

> This, however, isn't the first AI capable of doing that correct? Didn't Sora 1, Veo, and others come out before this making videos from sentences?

It seems like there was a 90% chance you weren’t impressed by these either…

> doesn't convince or impress me or anyone else that's a skeptic

Yes, this is why I asked what % of comments you’ve made have been skeptical about AI. There’s nothing that will impress you.

I didn’t want to convince you I wanted to find out if I should have any interest in what you had to say.

Re: Sora 2

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Post by Nursie »

astrange wrote: post #535
martin-t wrote: post #334

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56 minutes, 4 downvotes, HN is truly full of temporarily embarrassed millionaires. Does anybody here really think rich people deserve to just get richer faster than any working person can? Does anybody really believe that buying up homes and companies and raking in money for doing absolutely nothing is what we should be rewarding? Then put your name behind it.

Homes are depreciating assets. You can't get rich by "buying up homes and doing nothing" because you'd lose money. Nobody is doing this, although a bunch of confused people on social media believe BlackRock is doing it for some reason.

> Homes are depreciating assets.

Where do you live? Their value has been steadily appreciating in a lot of places in the west due to high demand.

Re: Sora 2

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Post by anshumankmr »

I think someone had called it many months back (and in fact I felt it too) that the feed for Sora seemed very much like a social media app. Then the only thing left was to make it into vertical scrolling with videos and voila you have your tiktok clone.

Re: Sora 2

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Post by paulcole »

rcxdude wrote: post #554
paulcole wrote: post #478

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I think a lot of it is 'a dog trained to play the piano at a 4th grade level' effect: yes, it's really notable and impressive, but it gets old fast and isn't obviously useful beyond the novelty. You need to put in a lot more effort to get any actual value out of these tools and at that point their strengths and limitations become a lot more clear and it's obvious that they are not an everything machine.

> it's obvious that they are not an everything machine

Whoever said they were an everything machine?

When I first used the Internet in the 90s, I wasn’t like, “This sucks there’s no Amazon and no Facebook.”

Re: Sora 2

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Post by maplethorpe »

dukeyukey wrote: post #513
groggo wrote: post #504

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It's pretty entertaining. People always like telling stories. Books, comic strips, movies, they're all just telling a story with a different amount of it left up to the viewer's imagination. Lowering the barrier to entry for this type of stuff is so cool. I think you have to be pretty pessimistic to not just think it's really cool. You can find issues with it for sure, and maybe argue that those issues outweigh the b…

It's undeniably cool. But look at Cocomelon on YouTube, it's hard to see how this won't converge to something similar, only infinitely more scalable.

Not to speak for the OP, but I think they would argue that 'Cocomelon' type content would be a great use of the tech.

Re: Sora 2

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Post by vunderba »

saguntum wrote: post #205

I wonder if they're going to license this to brands for heavily personalized advertisement. Imagine being able to see videos of yourself wearing clothes you're buying online before you actually place the order, instead of viewing them on a model. If they got the generation "live" enough, imagine walking past a mirror in a department store and seeing yourself in different clothes. Wild times.

I don't have to imagine it because it's probably the most COMMON fantasy that people who work in advertisement and marketing have every day.

Now... take it a STEP further. Remember the scene in Futurama where Fry tries on the Lightspeed Briefs and looks in the mirror to see a rather aspirational version of himself?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by0KQRJVFuk

Yeah.

Re: Sora 2

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Post by android521 »

raincole wrote: post #547
morleytj wrote: post #496

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Not to be a downer, but even as someone very optimistic about technology and AI generally, "TikTok but AI" sounds like a societally terrible thing to try and create. What's the benefit of this? Curious if anyone has a solid viewpoint steelmanning any positives they can think of.

As a social experiment to reveal how senseless and pointless pop entertainment could be. (personal rant) I've been in a mild existential crisis since I read Amusing Ourselves to Death . Can one form of entertainment really be more well-regarded than another? Is fine art fundamentally different from pop art? Are there 'finer' pop cultures amongst all pop cultures? I do still think reading The Song of Ice and Fire is m…

well, one destroys your attention span and brain

Re: Sora 2

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Post by astrange »

Nursie wrote: post #602
astrange wrote: post #535

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Homes are depreciating assets. You can't get rich by "buying up homes and doing nothing" because you'd lose money. Nobody is doing this, although a bunch of confused people on social media believe BlackRock is doing it for some reason.

> Homes are depreciating assets. Where do you live? Their value has been steadily appreciating in a lot of places in the west due to high demand.

I live in the most expensive housing market in the world.

That's because the value of the land under the houses is so high; the house itself is nothing special. But even then, it's mostly because of Prop 13, and it only works out if you live in the house yourself. There's still noone cornering the market in California houses. Almost all landlords only own 1-2 properties.

Re: Sora 2

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Post by necovek »

dom96 wrote: post #460
the_duke wrote: post #273

I haven't seen comments regarding a big factor here: It seems like OpenAI is trying to turn Sora into a social network - TikTok but AI. The webapp is heavily geared towards consumption, with a feed as the entry point, liking and commenting for posts, and user profiles having a prominent role. The creation aspect seems about as important as on Instagram, TikTok etc - easily available, but not the primary focus. Genera…

> Sora is not available in The United Kingdom yet Well this is disappointing. I can't even watch your links.

Same here (another country): pretty sure that the creator gets no clear indication their URL won't work for everybody.

Re: Sora 2

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Post by mceachen »

ares623 wrote: post #577
samuelfekete wrote: post #393

This is a step towards a constant stream of hyper-personalised AI generated content optimised for max dopamine.

Kids will go to School V2 and have absolutely nothing in common to talk about because each one will have completely unique media entertainment at home.

Don't worry, they will always have new Minecraft mobs and biomes to discuss.
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