I wonder if we as a society, have overrated value created digitally, and underrated value created physically or with proximity.
We still need nurses, cooks, theater, builders etc.
Sora: Creating video from text
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#702Holy fuck
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#703I find creepy things in all the videos, despite their breathtaking quality at first glance. Whether it is the way the dog walks out into space or the clawlike hand of the woman in Tokyo, they are still uncanny valley to me. I'm not going to watch a movie made this way, even if it costs my $0.15 instead of $15.00. But I got tired of Avatar after watching it for 20 minutes. Maybe all the artificial abundance and intellectual laziness the generative AI world will make us realize how precious and beautiful the real world is. For my kids' sake, I hope so.
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#704I 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
There are also perspective issues: the relative sizes of the foreground (the people sitting at the café) and the background (the market) are incoherent. Same with the "snowy Tokyo with cherry blossoms" video.
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#705Watching 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!
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#706Call me whatever you want, but this technology should not exist. People to just create lifelike videos of anything they can put their mind to, is bound to lead to the ruining of many peoples' lives. As many people that are aware and interested in this technology, there is 100x people who have no idea, don't care or can't comprehend it. Those are the people that I fear for. Grab a few pictures of the grandkids off of…
It’s kinda pointless to say though
You can’t uninvent something
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#707Does 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 spend my time researching solutions to things that concern me. (UBI isn't really a solution.)
We need to push back generally against our top heavy economy. More local and regional focus would help.
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#708I find creepy things in all the videos, despite their breathtaking quality at first glance. Whether it is the way the dog walks out into space or the clawlike hand of the woman in Tokyo, they are still uncanny valley to me. I'm not going to watch a movie made this way, even if it costs my $0.15 instead of $15.00. But I got tired of Avatar after watching it for 20 minutes. Maybe all the artificial abundance and intell…
Sure, but imagine using this as a generative-fill to augment a movie, not just making an entire movie from it. We've seen fantastic homemade movies from very talented artists before. Now imagine if mostly talented artists could do it too.
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#709The Hollywood Reporter says many in the industry are very scared.[1] “I’ve heard a lot of people say they’re leaving film,” he says. “I’ve been thinking of where I can pivot to if I can’t make a living out of this anymore.” - a concept artist responsible for the look of the Hunger Games and some other films. "A study surveying 300 leaders across Hollywood, issued in January, reported that three-fourths of respondents…
Honest question: of what possible use could Sora be for Hollywood? The results are amazing, but if the current crop of text-to-image tools is any guide, it will be easy to create things that look cool but essentially impossible to create something that meets detailed specific criteria. If you want your actor to look and behave consistently across multiple episodes of a series, if you want it to precisely follow a det…
People are extrapolating out ten years. They will still have to eat and pay rent in ten years.
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#710This will probably cost some downvotes, but can we start a thread explaining the architecture behind this for this interested in how it actually works?