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Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

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Re: Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

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Post by wokwokwok »

iamsaitam wrote: post #66
VoodooJuJu wrote: post #12

A lot of people saying it's over for traditional movie-making - lmao. I look at these and see nothing but uncanny valley artifacts, and I don't think it will improve much from here. It's like self-driving cars. They use almost very effective statistical models, certainly better than our previous models, but they never seem to shake off that "almost" and become truly effective.

It will definitely improve from here onward. On the other hand, I agree that it's a ridiculous thing to say that traditional movie-making is over. There's so much involved in making a movie, so much happenstance from the actors performances in a specific environment. You will never be able to get this in AI.. you might get some sort of mimicry, but the comparison is futile.. a movie isn't just a sequence of changing…

I think it’s more complex than that.

What you’re going to see is a race to the bottom, the same as with claymation films and 3d.

It will suddenly require a lot less (expensive, highly trained) people to make the same films.

You’ll still need expensive highly trained people to do it, but with different skills and a lot less of them can do a lot more a lot more quickly.

…and that means that some studios will make bad, low grade films… and some studios will make amazing films using hybrid techniques (like 3d printed faces for claymation).

…but overall, the people funding movies will expect to get more for less, and that will mean a downsizing of the number of people employed currently in certain roles.

Traditional film making over? Hm… it’s complicated. Is it over if the entire industry changes, but people are still making films? Or is that just the “traditional” part of it which is over?

It’s definitely going to change the industry.

People will still definitely film things.

…but, I wager, less people will be doing highly payed skilled manual work, which will replaced by a few people doing a different type of AI assisted work.

…and we’ll see some really amazing indy films, of small highly technical teams producing content with very little physical filming.

Re: Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

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Aardwolf wrote: post #37
bottlepalm wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Neural nets as an abstract concept don’t necessarily need to be built with atoms, just the substance of the external universe which may be far simpler.

I also didn't imply this neural network's universe needs atoms, but it needs to run the computation somehow, the computation itself is the complexity, no matter with what physics or other manifestation it shows up And if it is simulating our universe's atoms, then that part of it basically is our atoms. But is a neural net doing that really simpler than the atoms just running with a more direct mathematical model?

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Re: Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

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Post by dahfizz »

5350-uiop-1130 wrote: post #68

Wonder if all these things will bring about a kind of cambrian explosion of creativity. Imagine a future of Prompt Wizards, who are able to coax the AI to generate things in a very specific way. Although we would probably need a much greater level of human curation. The way algorithms curate on youtube and spotify just doesn't really hit the spot. Perhaps stability and Dall-e already kind of showed that the value is…

I think we will definitely see a content explosion. The pessimist in me says that general levels of creativity and quality will go down, if anything.

It's AI written blogspam, but for images and video too. The signal to noise ratio is getting worse and worse

Re: Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

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Post by xhkkffbf »

scifibestfi wrote: post #65

"Our research takes the following steps to reduce the creation of harmful, biased, or misleading content." "Our goal is to eventually make this technology available to the public, but for now we will continue to analyze, test, and trial Make-A-Video to ensure that each step of release is safe and intentional." Are they really going to do a replay of OpenAI and Stable Diffusion? Deja vu coming soon.

What does "intentional" mean here? Does it mean that the person intends to type the text that they do? My cat sometimes walks across the keyboard, but for the most part I pretty much intend to type everything I type. Am I missing something?

Re: Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

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Post by asutekku »

Xelynega wrote: post #46
fasteddie31003 wrote: post #4

I'm rooting for this tech. Hopefully this will get modern movies out of their low risk reboot loop since it will be cheaper to make a movie that have new story lines that are commercially untested. I'd be happy to watch a movie that doesn't look AAA, but has compelling writing and makes me think. Or maybe I'll just stick to books.

I don't think modern movies are stuck in a "low risk reboot loop" because of the cost to produce, it's because of the potential profit. Why spend money on a film with new IP and ideas that you're not sure will be popular when the data science team has already worked with marketing to figure out exactly what movie will sell well? Good luck finding your movie with compelling and thought provoking writing in the big pil…

With the future version of this you could theoretically prototype movies way faster and try ideas with test audiences without requiring to actually film them
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