Subj : OpenAIs impressive new Sora videos show it has serious sci-fi pot To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Tue Mar 05 2024 18:00:06 OpenAIs impressive new Sora videos show it has serious sci-fi potential Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2024 17:50:31 +0000 Description: If youve been impressed with what youve already seen in terms of AI video creation, hold onto your hats FULL STORY ====================================================================== OpenAI's Sora , its equivalent of image creation but for videos, made huge shockwaves in the swiftly advancing world of AI last month, and weve just caught a few new videos which are even more jaw-slackening than what we have already been treated to. In case you somehow missed it, Sora is a text-to-video AI meaning you can write a simple request and itll compose a video (just as image generation previously worked , but obviously a much more complex endeavor). (Image credit: OpenAI) Now OpenAIs Sora research lead Tim Brooks has released some new content generated by Sora on X (formerly Twitter). This is Soras crack at fulfilling the following request: Fly through tour of a museum with many paintings and sculptures and beautiful works of art in all styles. Pretty impressive to say the least. On top of that, Bill Peebles, also a Sora research lead, showed us a clip generated from the following prompt: An alien blending in naturally with new york city, paranoia thriller style, 35mm film. (Image credit: OpenAI) Content creator Blaine Brown then stepped in to embellish the above clip, cutting it to repeat the footage and make it longer, while having the alien rapping, complete with lip-syncing. The music is generated by Suno AI by the way (with the lyrics written by Brown, mind), and lip-syncing is done with Pika Labs AI. This Sora clip is when the alien guy busts out in a lip-synced rap about how tough it is being different than everyone else. Workflow in the thread.@suno_ai_ @pika_labs (lip sync)Alienate Yourself pic.twitter.com/kc5FI83q5R March 3, 2024 See more Analysis: Still early days for Sora (Image credit: OpenAI) Its worth underlining how fast things seem to be progressing with the capabilities of AI. Image creation powers were one thing and extremely impressive in themselves but this is entirely another. Especially when you remember that Sora is still just in testing at OpenAI, with a limited set of red teamers (testers hunting out bugs and smoothing over those wrinkles). The camera work in the museum fly-through flows realistically and feels nicely imaginative in the way it swoops around (albeit with the occasional judder). And the last tweet shows how you can take a base clip and flesh it out with content including AI-generated music. Of course, AI can write a script as well, and so it begs the question: how long will it be before a blue alien is starring in an AI-generated post-apocalyptic drama. Or an (unintentional) comedy perhaps? You get the idea, and were getting carried away, of course, but still what AI could be capable of in just a few years is potentially mind-blowing, frankly. Naturally, well be seeing the cream of the crop of what Sora is capable of in these teasers, and there have been some buggy and weird efforts aired too. (Just as when ChatGPT and other AI chatbots first rolled onto the scene, we saw AI hallucinations and general unhinged behavior and replies). Perhaps the broader worry with Sora, though, is how this might eventually displace, rather than assist, content creators. But thats a fear to chew over on another day not forgetting the potential for misuse with AI-created videos which we recently discussed in more depth here . You might also like Hands on: Google Gemini the new Assistant has plenty of ideas Check out the best AI video editors for 2024 These new smart glasses can teach people about the world thanks to generative AI ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/software/openais-impressive-new-sora-video s-show-it-has-serious-sci-fi-potential --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .