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We're about a week into text-to-video models and they're already this impressive. Insane to imagine what the future holds in this space.

J5892 4y ago
Insane, terrifying, incredible, etc. We're rapidly stumbling into the future of media. Who would've imagined a year ago that trivial AI image generation would not only be this advanced, but also this pervasive in the mainstream. And now video is already this good. We'll have full audio/video clips within a month.
- joshcryer 4y ago
  Audio is the next thing that Stability AI is dropping, then video. In a few months you'll be able to conjure up anything you want if you have a few GPU cores. Pretty incredible.
  - astrange 4y ago
    I won’t be impressed until it can generate smells.
    - croddin 4y ago
      You joke, but that is in the works as well (would require special hardware though) https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/09/digitizing-smell-using-molecular-maps.html https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/09/digitizing-smell-using-mol...
      - astrange 4y ago
        Oh, it wasn’t really a joke. Didn’t know they were working on it though - I’ve always thought wanted to see use of all the senses in UIs, especially VR. Plus then maybe we could get a computer to tell us what thioacetone smells like without actually having to experience it.
trention 4y ago
>We're about a week into text-to-video models It's at the very least 5 years old: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.00421 https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.00421
- amilios 4y ago
  There's a significant quality difference however if you look at the generated samples in the paper. Imagen Video is leagues ahead. The progress is still quite drastic
kertoip_1 4y ago
How is it possible that all of them just started to appear at the same time? Is it possible that those models were designed and trained in a last few weeks? Has some "magic key" to content generation been just unexpectedly discovered? Or the topic became trendy and everyone is just publishing what they've got so far, so they hope to benefit from media attention?
- schleck8 4y ago
  This is why https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/xwdzr5/the_number_of_ai_papers_on_arxiv_per_month_grows/ https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/xwdzr5/the_num...
  - filoleg 4y ago
    As pointed out in the comments of that thread, if you make the same graph of all papers on arXiv by year (instead of just AI+ML), it would look roughly the same. Which speaks more about the growth of popularity of arXiv or the total number publications, rather than AI+ML specifically.
- thomasahle 4y ago
  > the topic became trendy and everyone is just publishing what they've got so far, so they hope to benefit from media attention? Presumably people are scrambling to publish what they have, so it is clear what work is independent and what is derivative.

J5892 4y ago

Insane, terrifying, incredible, etc. We're rapidly stumbling into the future of media. Who would've imagined a year ago that trivial AI image generation would not only be this advanced, but also this pervasive in the mainstream. And now video is already this good. We'll have full audio/video clips within a month.

joshcryer 4y ago
Audio is the next thing that Stability AI is dropping, then video. In a few months you'll be able to conjure up anything you want if you have a few GPU cores. Pretty incredible.
- astrange 4y ago
  I won’t be impressed until it can generate smells.
  - croddin 4y ago
    You joke, but that is in the works as well (would require special hardware though) https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/09/digitizing-smell-using-molecular-maps.html https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/09/digitizing-smell-using-mol...
    - astrange 4y ago
      Oh, it wasn’t really a joke. Didn’t know they were working on it though - I’ve always thought wanted to see use of all the senses in UIs, especially VR. Plus then maybe we could get a computer to tell us what thioacetone smells like without actually having to experience it.

trention 4y ago

>We're about a week into text-to-video models It's at the very least 5 years old: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.00421 https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.00421

amilios 4y ago
There's a significant quality difference however if you look at the generated samples in the paper. Imagen Video is leagues ahead. The progress is still quite drastic

kertoip_1 4y ago

How is it possible that all of them just started to appear at the same time? Is it possible that those models were designed and trained in a last few weeks? Has some "magic key" to content generation been just unexpectedly discovered? Or the topic became trendy and everyone is just publishing what they've got so far, so they hope to benefit from media attention?

schleck8 4y ago
This is why https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/xwdzr5/the_number_of_ai_papers_on_arxiv_per_month_grows/ https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/xwdzr5/the_num...
- filoleg 4y ago
  As pointed out in the comments of that thread, if you make the same graph of all papers on arXiv by year (instead of just AI+ML), it would look roughly the same. Which speaks more about the growth of popularity of arXiv or the total number publications, rather than AI+ML specifically.
thomasahle 4y ago
> the topic became trendy and everyone is just publishing what they've got so far, so they hope to benefit from media attention? Presumably people are scrambling to publish what they have, so it is clear what work is independent and what is derivative.