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Do robots dream of electric sheep? OpenAI just rocked the creative, productivity and overall AI research world and released sora. Very aptly named for something that seems to simply blow past what was previously believed the limit of what video generation could do (空, sora, japanese for sky, as in “sky’s the limit”). This is stuff of sci fi - 60s, consistent, contiguous, cinema quality video completely rendered via stable diffusion in a text-to-video transformer model clearly trained on enormous amount of real and synthetic data rendered in full 3D. The fact that this model can extrapolate both the physics of the real world, AND the behavioral patterns of creatures and humans alike in ways that seem intuitive and consistent with our experience once again indicates that these models do more than repeating patterns - they create an internal representation of how the world works, its physics, and the natural actions and reactions of its inhabitants. They are truly learning from us, real talk, y’all. But also - they are dreaming. We created technology that dreams. Think about when you close your eyes and fall into a slumber - your visual cortex gets into high gear, without any real visual sensory input - and so you are, jumping from disjoint imagery to disjoint imagery, with bits of surreal videos composed from experience, instinct, intuition and ideas, all encoded in pesky neurons and neural networks. And much like sora, you can dream of what seems real, or surreal just as much. But, unless you count yourself ones of those lucid dreamers, you can’t quite control it. Unlike sora, because all sora needs is a prompt, to simply dream of electric sheep.
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5moNice Philip K. Dick reference! Though, of course, every time I hear that book title, the first thing that pops into my head is this.