Over the past month, we’ve seen a rapid cadence of notable AI-related announcements and releases from both Google and OpenAI, and it’s been making the AI community’s head spin. It has also poured fuel on the fire of the OpenAI-Google rivalry, an accelerating game of one-upmanship taking place unusually close to the Christmas holiday. “How… Read More »
“A muscular barbarian breaking a CRT television set with a weapon, cinematic, 8K, studio lighting” “A scared woman in a Victorian outfit running through a forest, dolly shot” “Low angle static shot: A teddy bear sitting on a picnic blanket in a park, eating a slice of pizza. The teddy bear is brown and fluffy,… Read More »
On Wednesday, a video from OpenAI’s newly launched Sora AI video generator went viral on social media, featuring a gymnast who sprouts extra limbs and briefly loses her head during what appears to be an Olympic-style floor routine. As it turns out, the nonsensical synthesis errors in the video—what we like to call “jabberwockies”—hint at… Read More »
[embedded content] A music video by Canadian art collective Vallée Duhamel made with Sora-generated video. “[We] just shoot stuff and then use Sora to combine it with a more interesting, more surreal vision.” During a livestream on Monday—during Day 3 of OpenAI’s “12 days of OpenAi”—Sora’s developers showcased a new “Explore” interface that allows people… Read More »
Last week, actor and director Ben Affleck shared his views on AI’s role in filmmaking during the 2024 CNBC Delivering Alpha investor summit, arguing that AI models will transform visual effects but won’t replace creative filmmaking anytime soon. A video clip of Affleck’s opinion began circulating widely on social media not long after. “Didn’t expect… Read More »
On Friday, TriStar Pictures released Here, a $50 million Robert Zemeckis-directed film that used real time generative AI face transformation techniques to portray actors Tom Hanks and Robin Wright across a 60-year span, marking one of Hollywood’s first full-length features built around AI-powered visual effects. The film adapts a 2014 graphic novel set primarily in… Read More »
On Monday, Adobe announced Firefly Video Model, a new AI-powered text-to-video generation tool that can create novel videos from written prompts. It joins similar offerings from OpenAI, Runway, Google, and Meta in an increasingly crowded field. Unlike the competition, Adobe claims that Firefly Video Model is trained exclusively on licensed content, potentially sidestepping ethical and… Read More »
In the spirit of not cherry-picking any results, everything you see was the first generation we received for the prompt listed above it. “A highly intelligent person reading ‘Ars Technica’ on their computer when the screen explodes” “A cat in a car drinking a can of beer, beer commercial” “Will Smith eating spaghetti“ “Robotic humanoid… Read More »
On Friday, Meta announced a preview of Movie Gen, a new suite of AI models designed to create and manipulate video, audio, and images, including creating a realistic video from a single photo of a person. The company claims the models outperform other video-synthesis models when evaluated by humans, pushing us closer to a future… Read More »
Enlarge / Filmmaker James Cameron. reader comments 41 On Tuesday, Stability AI announced that renowned filmmaker James Cameron—of Terminator and Skynet fame—has joined its board of directors. Stability is best known for its pioneering but highly controversial Stable Diffusion series of AI image-synthesis models, first launched in 2022, which can generate images based on text… Read More »