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Sora: Creating video from text
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#652Does 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?
Maybe take a vacation here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruOJil_sxaA
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#653I think the implications go much further than just the image/video considerations. This model shows a very good (albeit not perfect) understanding of the physics of objects and relationships between them. The announcement mentions this several times. The OpenAI blog post lists "Archeologists discover a generic plastic chair in the desert, excavating and dusting it with great care." as one of the "failed" cases. But t…
I found the one about the people in Lagos pretty funny. The camera does about a 360deg spin in total, in the beginning there are markets, then suddenly there are skyscrapers in the background. So there's only very limited object permanence. > A beautiful homemade video showing the people of Lagos, Nigeria in the year 2056. Shot with a mobile phone camera. > https://cdn.openai.com/sora/videos/lagos.mp4
Yeah, some of the continuity errors in that one feel horrifying.
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#654Probably we humans will come to a point where we wouldn't even bother ourselves with making videos. We may just consume based on our emotional state on the fly generated by such services.
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#656Watching these made me think, I'm going to want to go to the theatre a lot more in the future and see fellow humans in plays, lectures and concerts. Such achievements in technology must lead to cultural change. Look at how popular vinyl has become, why not theatre again.
Imagine movies generated in real-time just for you, with the faces you know, places you know and what not!
That's terrifying and dystopian.
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#657Does 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 Congress and Until the End of the World lay out some possible outcomes of tech like this.
Specifically the dream fed back to the brain in an endless loop of personalization until individuals no longer share the same world.
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#658Countdown to when studios licensing this for "unlimited" episodes of your favorite series. There was Seinfeld "Nothing, Forever" AI parody, but once the models improve enough and are cheap enough to deploy, studios will license their content for real and just have endless seasons. Or even custom episodes. Imagine if every episode of a TV show was unique to the viewer.
That would not work because that's now how people work. People watch/play media to connect to others. How can you talk about anything to anyone or have any shared culture when other people will never see what you see? Movies, books, games, are a collective culture, not an individualist one. I don't know about you, but when I like an experience, I want to share it with others.
To be blunt about it, I can't help but imagine that the people who make such comments (and I've seen quite a few recently) are just complete philistines. They're the same people who can't draw, write, play, sing, design, or anything else and yet think they know what's good.
It's almost as if they think the purpose of art or entertainment is to stimulate some particular part of the brain and everything else between that and the screen/speakers/canvas/whatever is just an inconvenience that ought to be dispensed with as soon as technology allows.
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#659Does 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?
depends, are you afraid of growing far right nationalism at the same time?
Re: Sora: Creating video from text
#660Does 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?
until we automate the real work.....UBI will not work...