AI can make videos now. The video below was made with OpenAI's "Sora."
Yeah it "just" created two dogs, a background and added lifelike movement in what likely amounted to a couple of seconds at most. You're saying that as if it's some ordinary thing. The speed at which people get used to programs producing something that would have taken an hour or so and required real footage is madness.I mean... I just looks like someone copied an already existing video, maybe added another dog from a different video and pasted the gifs so to say onto a picture of a mountaintop with some added pictures of a blanket and mic.
There's a difference between taking AI images and adding facial movement to it (which most of those videos did) and generating a video from scratch based on a single prompt.Have you not seen all the film trailer AI videos? Like lords of the rings but Wes Anderson, or Lord of the rings, but in Berlin…
So it’s a pioneer video from a single prompt?There's a difference between taking AI images and adding facial movement to it (which most of those videos did) and generating a video from scratch based on a single prompt.
Yes, these (including the video linked by Fyri) are based on one prompt each. A single sentence went into making them, which is pretty revolutionary.So it’s a pioneer video from a single prompt?
Another area with some interesting potential is in teaching. I could show--now either static or as video--an engaging (note I did not say realistic) picture of a medieval village. It would be miles ahead of the classic line drawing diagram of a village, and would put to shame those painstaking reconstructions of things like Amiens Cathedral.
I'm waiiting for Sora to go more public, when I'll ask it to show me a medieval village. Then I'll ask it to show me an 8th century village, then a 13thc village. Then I'll ask it for a Scottish village, a Sicilian village, a Polish village. Even more fun, I'll ask for an 11thc Pomeranian town. Or a Wendish village and see how far it gets with that.
I opened by saying there's potential. That is a neutral adjective, and there's potential to mislead or to perpetuate misconceptions as much as there is to "educate". The way technology affects pedagogy continues to fascinate me.
If/When it gets to the point of historical accuracy I'll lose a lot of hours playing around with that. Of course, I might be dead by the time that happens and have plenty of time to waste.