To put it into perspective, the Will Smith eating spaghetti video came out not even a year ago -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQr4Xklqzw8
And this was made over 3 years ago : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WfZuNceFDM
Sora: Creating video from text
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#982I say this with all sincerity, if you're not overwhelmingly impressed with Sora then you haven't been involved in the field of AI generated video recently. While we understand that we're on the exponential curve of AI progress, it's always hard to intuit just what that means. Sora represents a monumental leap forward, it's comically a 3000% improvement in 'coherent' video generation seconds. Coupled with a significan…
I strongly believe that AI will have massive impact on the film industry however it won't be because of a blackbox, text to video tool like Sora. VFX artists and studios still want a high level of control over the end product and unless it's very simple to tweak small details like the blur of an object in the background, or the particle physics of an explosion, then they wouldn't use it. What Hollywood needs are AI tools that can integrate with their existing workflows. I think Adobe is doing a pretty good job at this.
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#983The idea that prompting is a creative tool is utterly illogical.
This will result in a ton of mediocre synthetic crap for corporate presentations and porn generating.
Contrary to the trends in SV, dehumanization of creative professions will result not in productivity boost but in utter chaos and as a result will add more time loss in production process.
I never liked Sam Altman in his Y years, now I know why.
Even with the "blessings" from the "masters" in Davos/Bilderberg, a bad idea is a bad idea. Maybe this will push World ID as a result, but is it necessary?
The current trends in tech are not producing solutions for a professional problem. With rare exceptions, this looks more and more as removing of human input and normalization of a society ruled by AI at any cost. So sad.
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#984right, we all new AI would be closer to realization in 2020. of course the first one to do it is some complete sellout asshole, affirming hateful rhetoric like "we have to make thing safe", which is just thinly veiled pro police state sentiment. every single thing you can come up with why this is "unsafe" is just police state mentality.
"porn without consent" - thought crime
"too much porn of whatever you dream of" - yes, conservatives (50% of USA) actually think this is a problem
"spam" - advancing the closed garden model email is heading towards. soon you will simply need government id to make email even though there are plenty of alternative ways to do communication aside from email which was already considered insecure and a bad protocol in 2000. this has nothing to do with AI but they are still acknowledging this absurdity by framing AI as the enabler of that.
"automated social engineering" - just weaponizing the ignorance the bad thought leaders of the industry left us. instead of giving us proper authentication methods, we still have "just send my photo id to these 33 companies, which will ask for it in random ways we dont expect and just have to trust them"
"copyright" - literally not a problem, almost nothing "protected" by copyright matters and the law is just used by aggressive capitalists to shove their products down everyone's throat
"ICBMs being automatically hacked and launched at people" - just stop being bad government and hiring completely uncredible people to implement every mission critical control system while hooking it up to the internet
"racist bias" (or whatever) - this is the dumbest fucking thing i've ever heard of
this website is a perfect snapshot of why tech sucks so hard. its dressed up like cinematic film using a ton of js libs and css hacks or god knows so it can only be viewed smoothly on the latest computer hardware. only on one of the big 3 browsers that each had a trillion man hours of pointless iterations driven by digital graphics marketing companies. and on top of that they have a nice professional tone made by $300K/year PR people. please, sincerely, fuck off.
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#985I 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…
Wouldn't having a good understanding of physics mean you know that a women doesn't slide down the road when she walks? Wouldn't it know that a woolly mammoth doesn't emit profuse amounts steam when walking on frozen snow? Wouldn't the model know that legs are solid objects in which other object cannot pass through? Maybe I'm missing the big picture here, but the above and all the weird spatial errors, like miniaturiz…
The answer could be in between. Who said delusion models are limited to 2d pixel generations?
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#986quite the technical feat I suppose, but the actual result is nightmare fuel -- legs swapping places, people walking into simulacrum of spaces -- just deeply unsettling uncanny valley stuff
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#987This is both amazing and saddening to me. All our cultural legacy is being fed into a monstrous machine that gives no attribution to the original content with which it was fed, and so the creative industry seems to be in great danger. Creativity being automated while humans are forced to perform menial tasks for minimum wage doesn't seem like a great future and the geriatric political class has absolutely no clue how…
We are all standing on the shoulders of giants, whose existence and names we will never know or acknowledge. The way these models are creative is the same way humans are. The artist that painted Mona Lisa didn't credit any of the influences and inspirations that they had. Just as cameras made many artists redundant, so too will every other new tool, and not just artist but pretty much every job. But there are still p…
This reads like a wildly confident statement about art.
While at the same time not mentioning the actual name of "the artist that painted Mona Lisa" (Leonardo Da Vinci), nor knowing that the name of his master is very well known, and even the influence of artists that he seemed to despise (eg Michaelangelo) are very well documented as well.
Maaybe this narrow view of (art) history needs to be fine-tuned on more data :-)
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#988The gold rush scene is the most captivating to me. The film style looks like it's from the 70's/80's (reminds me of Little House on the Prairie), but the footage is from a drone standpoint. I find it magically immersive in a time when none of the technology to make the shot would have existed.
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#989I say this with all sincerity, if you're not overwhelmingly impressed with Sora then you haven't been involved in the field of AI generated video recently. While we understand that we're on the exponential curve of AI progress, it's always hard to intuit just what that means. Sora represents a monumental leap forward, it's comically a 3000% improvement in 'coherent' video generation seconds. Coupled with a significan…
I strongly believe that AI will have massive impact on the film industry however it won't be because of a blackbox, text to video tool like Sora. VFX artists and studios still want a high level of control over the end product and unless it's very simple to tweak small details like the blur of an object in the background, or the particle physics of an explosion, then they wouldn't use it. What Hollywood needs are AI t…
You're completely missing the point. Who cares what VFX artists and studios want if anyone with a small team can create high quality entertaining videos that millions of people would pay to watch? And if you think that's a bar too high for AI, then you haven't actually seen the quality of average videos and films generated these days.
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#990Watching 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.
I agree, seeing real human actors on stage will always be popular for some consumers. Same for local live musicians. That said, I helped a friend who makes low budget, edgy and cool films last week. I showed him what I knew about driving Pika.art and he picked it up quickly. He is very excited about the possibility of being able to write more stories and turn them into films. I think there is plenty of demand for all…
Drop a link to your friend’s work?