ILast week, the company Open AI, which specializes in artificial intelligence, presented the new software Sora. After ChatGPT and DALL-E, which generate images and text, Sora is supposed to generate complex videos from text prompts. Sora's announcement comes just weeks after Google unveiled text-to-video software Lumiere.
Access to Sora and Lumiere is still very limited, so conversations about the software are based primarily on the 48 sample videos that Open AI has published along with the associated prompts. The videos, some of which are impressive, show paper airplanes flying through a jungle like a flock of birds, or close-up photos of animals.
The selection of published prompts and videos is interesting because it makes clear the global claim that Open AI makes: videos from Japan, Chinese New Year, a bird's eye view of Santorini and a drone view of the California coast. Sora even transcends the boundaries of time and generates moving images of the gold rush in California or a street scene in Lagos in 2056. There are also some videos with AI surrealism, such as a man reading while sitting on a cloud or sharks walking through the streets of New York to swim.
Google's Lumiere also focuses on nature and landscape shots, underwater scenes, steam locomotives and sailing ships. The software companies particularly like to present animal photos; dogs and other cute furry animals in particular often appear. Also because animating fur is considered difficult and convincing animal videos can show the capabilities of the software. Above all, software errors in animal recordings do not appear nearly as scary as in videos with people. One, for example, shows a pack of wolf pups frolicking around, the number of which constantly changes as they move because the animals morph into one another.
A video like this with a group of people would have horror movie quality. The laughing grandmother in front of her birthday cake in a Sora video looks like an android and produces similar horror effects to the deformed human limbs in computer-generated images a few years ago.
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