Sora AI: Will Change The Global Economy FOREVER
Summary
TLDRThe video discusses the impressive capabilities of the new AI system DALL-E 2 and its potential to disrupt industries like photography, videography, animation, and more. It provides many striking examples of highly realistic images and videos generated by DALL-E 2 from simple text prompts. However, it also notes current limitations like inconsistent quality and inaccuracies. Overall, it conveys both the incredible progress of AI in generating synthetic media and the uncertainty around its societal impacts as it continues advancing rapidly.
Takeaways
- 😲 Sora by OpenAI can generate highly realistic videos from text prompts alone
- 😧 This technology threatens to displace jobs in industries like videography, animation, drone operation
- 🤔 The economic impacts could be far-reaching if entire industries are disrupted
- 👀 AI-generated media is getting so realistic it can fool unaware viewers
- 🔥 Development is accelerating quickly - today's flaws could be fixed tomorrow
- 🤖 AI personas indistinguishable from humans could emerge
- 🎥 New creative opportunities will arise for generating media
- ⛔ Safeguards like watermarks currently allow detection of AI-created media
- 😀 Fans may create alternate endings for shows using this tech
- 😕 Legal and ethical issues around synthetic media remain unresolved
Q & A
What is OpenAI's new technology called and what does it do?
-OpenAI's new technology is called DALL-E 2 or Sora. It can generate realistic images and videos from text descriptions.
What industries could be impacted by this new AI technology?
-This technology could impact videographers, camera manufacturers, drone operators, animators, stock footage companies, and more by automating or replacing some of their work.
How realistic do the AI-generated videos look?
-The videos look extremely realistic, like they were shot on high-end cameras. Only on close inspection would you notice subtle anomalies.
What safeguards does OpenAI currently have in place?
-There is a watermark to identify AI-generated media and access is limited to a small group of testers for now.
What are some limitations of the technology right now?
-The AI sometimes struggles with accuracy when generating multiples of things. Some flaws are visible on close frame-by-frame inspection.
What positive applications does the narrator foresee?
-The narrator thinks this could enable new content creators and fan-made alternate endings for shows.
What is the potential negative societal impact?
-Widespread job loss in affected industries which could damage the economy. Also potential for misuse in spreading misinformation.
Why does the narrator joke they could be AI-generated?
-To make the point that the AI-generated people can look so real that you can't easily distinguish them from actual people.
How might this impact the advertising industry?
-Brands may no longer need to hire production crews and license stock footage if they can generate custom video ads via AI.
What developments does the narrator expect in the future?
-The flaws will be improved over time to make AI-generated video indistinguishable from real footage.
Outlines
😲AI Generating Hyperrealistic Videos
Paragraph 1 discusses how the narrator used to be skeptical of AI's capabilities, but openAI's new Sora software is generating hyperrealistic videos with just text prompts. It provides astonishing examples like anime scenes, drone footage, and more that look real but are AI-generated.
🔧Examining Societal Impacts
Paragraph 2 analyzes the potentially massive societal impacts of this technology, like making many creative jobs in videography, animation, stock footage obsolete. It also discusses positive uses like easier content creation and implications for truth/trust online.
😅Narrator Also Worried About Job Prospects
Paragraph 3 has the narrator realizing his own job as a video creator could become obsolete too. He asks viewers for thoughts on economic impacts but says AI won't necessarily spell doom for humanity.
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Keywords
💡AGI
💡animators
💡drones
💡job displacement
💡stock footage
💡time travel
💡uncanny valley
💡videographers
💡visual effects
💡watermark
Highlights
OpenAI's Sora can generate realistic videos from text prompts
Sora-generated videos look incredibly realistic and detailed
Sora could displace jobs like videographers, drone operators, and animators
Over 875,000 videographer jobs in the US could be impacted
Sora can recreate niche videography like wildlife and macro footage
Sora eliminates need for costly gear like drones, cameras, lenses
AI-generated video quality keeps improving exponentially
Job losses could have ripple effects on global economy
AI video generation has crossed the uncanny valley
There are some subtle imperfections in Sora videos for now
Safeguards like watermarks help identify AI-generated videos
The technology presents opportunities for new content creators
We could see the first AI-generated virtual influencer
AI video will keep improving rapidly
The technology has concerning implications
Transcripts
so I used to think that artificial
intelligence was just one of those words
that people threw around to get
investors excited about putting their
money in the stock market and I thought
that it would never happen in my
lifetime but I think I'm wrong if you
haven't heard about open AI Sora it's
about to blow your mind and probably
change the world forever in ways that I
don't think people fully understand yet
you type in some text of what you want
and it creates videos and it does that
at such a high level of realism that it
shouldn't even be possible here are just
some of the examples of what it can do
right now here's a stylish woman that
walks down a Tokyo Street filled with
warm glowing neon and animated City
signage she wears a black leather jacket
a long red dress and black boots and
carries a black purse that was a one
minute long video that Sora created with
just a couple words in that prompt now I
added the music and the sound effects
because right now it can't do that and
it can't syn with video but I imagine it
will soon but it's doing that with such
a level of realism that it shouldn't be
possible without physically traveling to
Tokyo and shooting on a lowlight
fullframe sensor camera like the A7 S3
in 4k at 120 frames per second and it's
creating a shot that has never existed
before in human history and all it took
was just a couple words on a keyboard it
gets crazier though here's a movie
trailer featuring The Adventures of the
30-year-old Spaceman wearing a red wool
knitted motorcycle helmet Blue Sky salt
desert cinematic style shot on 35 mm
film with Vivid colors that straight up
looks like a scene from a JJ Abrams
movie except with a lot less lens flares
hold on there I fixed it it gets even
better because it can take a simple
photo as an input and reimagine it into
a video that looks like this this is
absolutely insane and this is just the
tip of the iceberg of what it can do let
me show you how this technology is about
to change all our lives and the global
economy forever let's get into it hi my
name is Andre J hope you're doing well
come for the finance and stay for the
magic because seeing is no longer
believing AGI or artificial general
intelligence is the single most
important invention in all of human
history and it will also probably be our
last because once you create the thing
that can create anything it's game over
and I used to think that that was
science fiction or at least it wouldn't
happen for a long time and probably not
in my lifetime but it's kind of scary
how fast it actually is is happening and
it's accelerating now my initial
thoughts are that it will probably
displace millions of jobs and throughout
this video I'll probably be asking you
more questions than I'll be answering
because I don't know the answer like
what's going to happen to Specialty
companies that make cameras and drones
you used to need a company that did that
the thousands of dollars that you needed
saved and the Drone licensed operate
them but now you don't need any of that
all you have to do is type drone view of
wave crashing against the rugged Cliffs
along big sur's graypoint beach voila
you get a picture perfect cinematic
drone shot I mean this is crazy I've
been to Big Sir and I actually flew a
drone there and it looked exactly like
that except in this case they recreated
the shot perfectly and they didn't have
to go to California thank the Lord
kidding but also what happens to all the
videographers that are out there because
in 2022 the Bureau of Labor Statistics
reported that videographers earned
roughly 62,000 a year which is a very
livable wage and there's approximately
875,000 videographers in the us alone
and they range anywhere from wildli all
the way to oceanographers and those very
specific Fields within videography can
also now be replicated by Sora here's
Borneo Wildlife on the kinab batangan
river here's one of the most detailed
shots of a Victoria crowned pigeon
here's some wly mammoths for you and
here's an octopus doing its octopus
thing so now we're potentially talking
about not needing videographers at all
or at least not as many as we have today
and we might not even need companies
that make special glass like macro
lenses because here is an extreme
closeup of a 24-year-old woman's eye
blinking standing in maresh during magic
hour come on if someone didn't tell you
that was AI would you even think twice
about it also another question what
happens to the animators the people that
made things like Toy Story in 2022 there
were 2 million animators globally making
$75,000 a year on average but also
here's an animated scene featuring a
closeup of a short fluffy monster
kneeling beside a melting red candle
does that mean we don't need an entire
Studio of 3D Graphics animators I don't
know but Sora also extends Way Beyond
animation and movie making it's also
going to change the way that people make
commercials like car commercials for
example which will never be made the
same again here's a typical car shot you
might see a drone following a car in
extreme detail and and here's another of
a Porsche just driving in the mountains
and it looks insanely real if you never
told me I would never have noticed that
these were AI generated videos and this
is coming from a guy who did video
production professionally for 20 years
no one is safe from this technology not
even Time Travelers they're about to go
out of business too here's a really
detailed shot of California during the
Gold Rush it's even able to visualize
not only what the past might have looked
like but also the future here's a shot
of logos Nigeria in the year 2056 shot
with a mobile phone camera when I first
found out about this my first thought
was this is an April Fool's joke right
there's no way these videos were AI
generated how did we go from making
videos that look like this less than a
year ago makes no sense at all to videos
that look like this which look like
they're shot on beautiful 4K cameras in
slow motion so I guess we can also say
goodbye to stock footage companies and
openai tells us that these were all
created by Sora without any modification
so this is not a joke this technology is
here to stay and my question is what's
going to happen next now I watched one
of the First videos that came out about
this by MKBHD and he had a really
interesting observation about that drone
shot that I showed you earlier and that
has all sorts of implications for the
Drone pilot that no longer needs to be
hired for all the photographers and
videographers whose footage no longer
needs to be licensed to show up in that
ad that's being made it's already that
good which is exactly my point and that
Tokyo shot short of going to Tokyo and
hiring a crew of videographers maybe a
video editor maybe a colorist booking
flights to get there the hotels the
meals all of that is not as needed
anymore there's going to be a lot of
jobs that will be eliminated or at the
very least those incomes will be
drastically reduced and the jobs will be
concentrated into fewer jobs we kind of
already saw that happen with Chad GPT
and the writer strike I imagine we'll
see more job postings like this one from
Netflix when they wanted to find an AI
platform manager and they offered them
$900,000 per year for the companies that
can I can see them consolidating say 20
of their jobs into fewer at a fraction
of the cost and the thing that's scary
without trying to fearmonger because I
don't know the answer is that if you
eliminate an entire industry of people
even if it's a small one it can have
Ripple consequences on the entire global
economy with loss of employment loss of
productivity lower profits potentially
supply chain problems and the assets and
Loans of those people and who pays for
them if they can't also it's election
year and this technology has gotten so
good that it's crossed the uncanny
valley in other words the people in
these AI videos look real especially to
people who might not be looking for or
even be aware of what AI can do already
and the thing that's shocking that we
have to keep in mind is that this
technology is getting better and better
faster and faster again remember this is
where we were less than a year ago now
there are a couple good things that I
can see coming from this technology and
one of them is fan-made Recreations of
alternate endings for their favorite
shows cuz I think some of them do need
it I imagine this will open up a
Floodgate Of new content creators on
social media who knows we might even see
the first AI generated person who people
don't even know is not a real person
like I could be AI generated you don't
know your mind would be blown all I'm
saying is you've never seen me and Sora
in the same room the good news is for
now they do have safeguards in place
like for example the watermark in the
bottom right hand corner which for now
is how you can tell it was AI generated
but someone can also easily just crop
that out they're also keeping this
technology only open to the quote red
teamers or the group of testers who are
working to refine it cuz right now it's
not perfect if you look close enough at
any of the shots you'll notice that
something is off it's very small small
though and you have to look really
really close like for example one of my
favorites is this shot of the dogs
playing in the snow it's probably one of
the best I've seen on their website at
first glance you probably didn't notice
what just happened I know I didn't but
if you look close enough you'll see that
the gravity reverses in the snow sort of
Falls upward for a split second also the
Gold Rush California scene right in the
beginning there's a horse that just
copper fields and vanishes from the left
side of the frame sometimes it's just
super subtle like that and all the clips
have something in them if you play them
frame by frame and other times it's a
lot more obvious like for example these
red pandas in the petri dish which only
have two legs for some reason or these
multiplying wolves which shouldn't be
doing that it has trouble with accuracy
when it comes to multiples of things the
good news is if you look close enough
you'll notice something but it is good
enough to be used creatively and I
imagine in some cases dangerously but
also remember it's only going to get
better from here or maybe worse well I
guess it's better for some people and
worse for the people that make videos
for a living hey wait a
minute I'm a Blake employee I'd love to
know your thoughts about what you think
all of this means if there's entire
industries that we might not need now I
don't think that AI is going to be the
end of us but if it is we'll get some
really great shows and movies out of it
and I'm really looking forward to that
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