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Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by userbinator »

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?

We're already in a post-truth world online. There's never been a better time to interact with people outside of a computer.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by novalis78 »

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 future is bright. Powerful tools, explosion of consciousness, exploration of the cosmos.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by TealMyEal »

agomez314 wrote: post #20

Imagine someone combining this with the Apple Vision Pro...many people will simply opt out of reality and live in a digital world. Not that this is new, but I'll entice a lot more people than ever before.

in their research paper it says "These capabilities suggest that continued scaling of video models is a promising path towards the development of highly-capable simulators of the physical and digital world, and the objects, animals and people that live within them*." they are well set on that happening

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by wingspar »

Watched the MKBHD video on this and couldn’t help but think about copyrights when he spoke of the impact on stock footage companies.

As I understand the current US situation, a straight prompt-to-generate-video cannot be copyrighted. https://www.copyright.gov/ai/ai_policy_guidance.pdf

But the copyright office is apparently considering the situation more thoroughly now.

Is that where it stands?

If it can’t be copyrighted, it seems that would tamper many uses.

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Post by donsupreme »

All current form of entertainment will be impacted, all of them.

Except for live sporting events.

This is why I think megacorps all going to bid for sport league streaming right. That's the only one that AI can't touch.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by comex »

gerash wrote: post #381
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…

When others create text to video systems (eg. Lumiere from Google) they publish the research (eg. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.12945.pdf ). Open AI is all about commercialization. I don't like their attitude

Google is hardly a good actor here. They just announced Gemini 1.5 along with a "technical report" [1] whose entire description of the model architecture is: "Gemini 1.5 Pro is a sparse mixture-of-expert (MoE) Transformer-based model". Followed by a list of papers that it "builds on", followed by a definition of MoE. I suppose that's more than OpenAI gave in their GPT-4 technical report. But not by much!

[1] https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini/gemini_...

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Post by po »

sva_ wrote: post #623
sebastiennight wrote: post #363

I 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

In the video of the girl walking down the Tokyo city street, she's wearing a leather jacket. After the closeup on her face they pull back and the leather jacket has hilariously large lapels that weren't there before.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by daxfohl »

snewman wrote: post #641
neutralx wrote: post #378

Has anyone else noticed the leg swap in Tokyo video at 0:14. I guess we are past uncanny, but I do wonder if these small artifacts will always be present in generated content. Also begs the question, if more and more children are introduced to media from young age and they are fed more and more with generated content, will they be able to feel "uncanniness" or become completely blunt to it. There's definitely interes…

There are definitely artifacts. Go to the 9th video in the first batch, the one of the guy sitting on a cloud reading a book. Watch the book; the pages are flapping in the wind in an extremely strange way.

The third batch, the one with the cat, the guy in bed has body parts all over, his face deforms, and the blanket is partially alive.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by Havoc »

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?

Yeah today spooked me too. Between this and the large context length on google side and ability to understand video (and thus say video feed for work tasks) it sure seems like the amount of jobs in the firing line just jumped massively
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