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Sora 2

271 points by meetpateltech 1y ago

dang 1y ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45427982 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45427982, which was posted a bit earlier
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robotsquidward 1y ago
It's insanely impressive. At the same time, all these videos all look terrible to me. Still get extreme uncanny valley and literally makes me sick to my stomach.
unethical_ban 1y ago
I just had a thought: (spoilers Expanse and Hyperion and Fire Upon the Deep) Multiple sci-fi-fantasy tales have been written about technology getting so out of control, either through its own doing or by abuse by a malevolent controller, that society must secer itself from that technology very intentionally and permanently. I think the idea of AGI and transhumanism is that moment for society. I think it's hard to put the genie back in the bottle because multiple adversarial powers are racing to be more powerful than the rest, but maybe the best thing for society would be if every tensor chip disintegrated the moment they came into existence. I don't see how society is better when everyone can run their own gooner simulation and share it with videos made of their high school classmates. Or how we'll benefit from being unable to trust any photo or video we see without trusting who sends it to you, and even then doubting its veracity. Not being able to hear your spouse's voice on the phone without checking the post-quantum digital signature of their transmission for authenticity. Society is heading to a less stable, less certain moment than any point in its history, and it is happening within our lifetime.
- fornax55 1y ago
  Red alert Critical thinking activity detected in cubic 87864-B Recommendation: administer more Dimbrane and decrease cubic oxygen content by 3% to further reduce neural firing calacity
- fornax55 1y ago
  Sidenote there aren't really any spoilers to the Hyperion Cantos here, since you didn't really touch on any conflict resolution or specific plot points although (spoilers?) you got my mind wrapped around that insidious councilor Albedo and how 400 years can pass in the blink of an... A.EYE... lol
  - unethical_ban 1y ago
    In all three of those series, societies have to painfully sever their high speed connectivity with each other.
polishdude20 1y ago
There's something about the faces that looks completely off to me. I think it's the way the mouth and whole face moves when they talk.
byearthithatius 1y ago
Will be interesting to see the data race between OpenAI and Google given the sheer size of YouTube. Nobody can beat that dataset size, but how Google utilizes it will be key to if they can win. Its a tough problem. How do you label / train on a distribution like that.
the_duke 1y ago
I haven't seen comments regarding a big factor here: It seems like OpenAI is trying to turn Sora into a social network - TikTok but AI. The webapp is heavily geared towards consumption, with a feed as the entry point. The editing aspect seems very secondary. Generated videos are very short, with minimal controls. The only selectable option is picking between landscape and portrait mode. There is no mention or attempt to move towards long form videos, storylines, advanced editing/controls/etc, like other products in this space. Seems pretty clear they want to turn this into AITok.

271 points by meetpateltech 1y ago

dang 1y ago

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45427982 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45427982, which was posted a bit earlier

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robotsquidward 1y ago

It's insanely impressive. At the same time, all these videos all look terrible to me. Still get extreme uncanny valley and literally makes me sick to my stomach.

unethical_ban 1y ago

I just had a thought: (spoilers Expanse and Hyperion and Fire Upon the Deep) Multiple sci-fi-fantasy tales have been written about technology getting so out of control, either through its own doing or by abuse by a malevolent controller, that society must secer itself from that technology very intentionally and permanently. I think the idea of AGI and transhumanism is that moment for society. I think it's hard to put the genie back in the bottle because multiple adversarial powers are racing to be more powerful than the rest, but maybe the best thing for society would be if every tensor chip disintegrated the moment they came into existence. I don't see how society is better when everyone can run their own gooner simulation and share it with videos made of their high school classmates. Or how we'll benefit from being unable to trust any photo or video we see without trusting who sends it to you, and even then doubting its veracity. Not being able to hear your spouse's voice on the phone without checking the post-quantum digital signature of their transmission for authenticity. Society is heading to a less stable, less certain moment than any point in its history, and it is happening within our lifetime.

fornax55 1y ago
Red alert Critical thinking activity detected in cubic 87864-B Recommendation: administer more Dimbrane and decrease cubic oxygen content by 3% to further reduce neural firing calacity
fornax55 1y ago
Sidenote there aren't really any spoilers to the Hyperion Cantos here, since you didn't really touch on any conflict resolution or specific plot points although (spoilers?) you got my mind wrapped around that insidious councilor Albedo and how 400 years can pass in the blink of an... A.EYE... lol
- unethical_ban 1y ago
  In all three of those series, societies have to painfully sever their high speed connectivity with each other.

polishdude20 1y ago

There's something about the faces that looks completely off to me. I think it's the way the mouth and whole face moves when they talk.

byearthithatius 1y ago

Will be interesting to see the data race between OpenAI and Google given the sheer size of YouTube. Nobody can beat that dataset size, but how Google utilizes it will be key to if they can win. Its a tough problem. How do you label / train on a distribution like that.

the_duke 1y ago

I haven't seen comments regarding a big factor here: It seems like OpenAI is trying to turn Sora into a social network - TikTok but AI. The webapp is heavily geared towards consumption, with a feed as the entry point. The editing aspect seems very secondary. Generated videos are very short, with minimal controls. The only selectable option is picking between landscape and portrait mode. There is no mention or attempt to move towards long form videos, storylines, advanced editing/controls/etc, like other products in this space. Seems pretty clear they want to turn this into AITok.