[hamdani yusuf (OP)]

Google Casually Drops the Best AI Video Generator We've Ever Seen

Lumiere is a text-to-video AI model from Google that uses space and time to create realistic videos. It's a time-space diffusion model that transforms images and text into AI-generated videos. Lumiere can create video clips up to five seconds long and can animate still images.

Future AI will only be even better. The cost keeps getting down, while the quality keeps getting up.

[hamdani yusuf (OP)]

Some sceptics said that cars will never drive themselves.

My favorite moments of the day

[hamdani yusuf (OP)]

Google Gemini Ultra is finally out: the most powerful iteration of the tech giant?s latest AI. Expected to compete with the ChatGPT and beat it, the most advanced version of Gemini is said to be the pinnacle of the current generation of artificial intelligence. But is it? Here?s Google Gemini Ultra, explained in 2 minutes.

00:00​ Intro
0:40​ How to access
1:06​ Features
1:58​ Final thoughts

[hamdani yusuf (OP)]

Elon Musk's Bionic Eyes Are Here.

In this video, Dr. Michael Chua discusses Neuralink's bionic vision brain implants and why this technology has the potential to change humanity forever.

0:00 Introduction
1:18 What are brain-computer interfaces?
6:20 Second Sight's Argus Implant
12:11 Neuralink

[alancalverd]

Some sceptics said that cars will never drive themselves.

Not scepticism but ignorance. Nothing new about a self-driving car, and lawyers are queueing up to argue the insurance claims.

[alancalverd]

Elon Musk's Bionic Eyes Are Here.

About 40 years behind the brain-computer interfaces I saw at Vienna Technical University.

[hamdani yusuf (OP)]

Elon Musk's Bionic Eyes Are Here.

About 40 years behind the brain-computer interfaces I saw at Vienna Technical University.

Have you watched the video?
Especially when he talks about bandwidth?

[alancalverd]

One would indeed hope that bandwidth has improved in the last 40 years.

[hamdani yusuf (OP)]

Besides the bandwidth, improvements are also made in less complications and side effects. What's also important is the economy of scale which would make it more affordable for those who need the system.

[hamdani yusuf (OP)]

Introducing Sora − OpenAI's text-to-video model

Introducing Sora, our text-to-video model.

Sora can create videos of up to 60 seconds featuring highly detailed scenes, complex camera motion, and multiple characters with vibrant emotions.

We?ll be taking several important safety steps ahead of making Sora available in OpenAI?s products. We are working with red teamers ? domain experts in areas like misinformation, hateful content, and bias ? who are adversarially testing the model.

All the clips in this video were generated directly by Sora without modification.

Learn more about Sora: https://openai.com/sora

Chapters:
00:09 Dancing Kangaroo
00:22 Snow Dogs
00:43 River Birds
00:55 Petri Dish Pandas
01:08 Big Sur
01:21 Movie Trailer Astronaut
01:40 Coffee Pirates
01:57 Tokyo Snow
02:09 Cyberpunk Robot
02:30 Candle Monster
02:43 The Offroader
03:04 Paper Origami
03:27 Nosy Cat
03:38 Woolly Mammoths
03:51 Lagos
04:14 Television Gallery
04:37 Cloud Reader
04:59 Miniature Construction
05:11 Gold Rush Aerial
05:38 Fairytale Furball
05:49 Amalfi Coast Aerial
06:12 Tokyo Tourist
06:31 Blossoming Flower
06:42 Art Museum
07:05 Solemn Gentleman
07:28 Eye Close-up
07:47 Chinese New Year
07:58 Surfing Otter
08:17 Dalmatian in the Window
08:31 Tokyo Train
08:42 Zen Garden Gnome
08:53 Flock of Paper Planes
09:16 Lost Lone Wolf

[hamdani yusuf (OP)]

And here are some commentary videos.

Sora AI: Will Change The Global Economy FOREVER

Sora - Full Analysis (with new details)

Sora, the text-to-video model from OpenAI, is here. I go over the bonus details and demos released in the last few hours, and the technical paper. I?ll also give you a glimpse of what?s to come next and a host of implications. Even if you?ve seen every Sora video, I bet you won?t know all of this!

AI Generated Videos Just Changed Forever
Reminder: It?s only been 1 YEAR since the Will Smith eating spaghetti video

[hamdani yusuf (OP)]

AGI in 7 Months! Gemini, Sora, Optimus, & Agents - It's about to get REAL WEIRD out there!

Some of interesting comments:

So we are creating a "successor superspecies" without the consent of 99.99% of humanity.
I am very impressed that Silicon Valley is still committed to "diversity, equity, and inclusion" in the work place.

The horse and engine analogy is really apt right now. The mass replacement of horses didn?t happen overnight because we didn?t just need engines, we needed tires, cars, roads, a Highway Code, driver?s licensing, not to mention massive oil infrastructure and economies of scale to make things affordable. With AI we need robotics, cloud infrastructure, a new legal/ethical framework, much bigger scale GPU production, etc. So we?ll have AGI very soon but rollout will still take a few years while we reorganize around it. The key difference now is that AGI could autonomously orchestrate a lot of the rollout for us.

AGI becomes ASI overnight.

[alancalverd]

So, truth in, garbage out. The ultimate weapon of politics, philosophy, religion and economics. As with paper publishing, more bandwidth = more bullshit.

[hamdani yusuf (OP)]

So, truth in, garbage out. The ultimate weapon of politics, philosophy, religion and economics. As with paper publishing, more bandwidth = more bullshit.

Natural selection will eventually weed out the unfitted. It's up to us whether to do it wastefully or efficiently through critical thinking and logical reasoning.

[Zer0]

" ?For me, a luddite is someone who looks at technology critically and rejects aspects of it that are meant to disempower, deskill or impoverish them. Technology is not something that?s introduced by some god in heaven who has our best interests at heart. Technological development is shaped by money, it?s shaped by power, and it?s generally targeted towards the interests of those in power as opposed to the interests of those without it. That stereotypical definition of a luddite as some stupid worker who smashes machines because they?re dumb? That was concocted by bosses.? "

Source - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/17/humanitys-remaining-timeline-it-looks-more-like-five-years-than-50-meet-the-neo-luddites-warning-of-an-ai-apocalypse

ps - Never lose Hope!
Be Persistent & Stubborn.
& Never Give Up!
(Ted)

[hamdani yusuf (OP)]

Technological development is shaped by money, it?s shaped by power, and it?s generally targeted towards the interests of those in power as opposed to the interests of those without it.

We need to think further, what shaped the money and power in the first place?
How do we determine our own best interest?

[alancalverd]

Natural selection will eventually weed out the unfitted.

Alas not. What we have seen of AI so far has been the generation of increasingly trivial, pointless and potentially libellous crap. That's where the money is.

The most nearly useful application currently advertised on TV is a phone that allows you to  draw a circle round something in a photograph, then buy something that looks like it.

Apparently it is in your best interest to have one of these - why else would anyone buy one?

[hamdani yusuf (OP)]

OpenAI's "AGI Pieces" SHOCK the Entire Industry! AGI in 7 Months! | GPT, AI Agents, Sora & Search

OpenAI's Statement SHOCK the Entire Industry! AI Riots vs "Moore's Law for Everything" by Sam Altman

00:00 The Idea
01:55 Panic at the X
06:33 Max Tegmark and Robot Homies
12:48 Sam Altman's Plan
34:53 OpenAI Forum

[hamdani yusuf (OP)]

OpenAI's "World Simulator" SHOCKS The Entire Industry | Simulation Theory Proven?!

OpenAI's Sora is described as a "world simulator" by OpenAI. It can potentially simulate not only our reality but EVERY reality.

[alancalverd]

OpenAI's Sora is described as a "world simulator" by OpenAI. It can potentially simulate not only our reality but EVERY reality.

Including its own? Bollocks.