Sora AI: Will Change The Global Economy FOREVER

Summary

The 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

00:00

😲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.

05:01

🔧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.

10:02

😅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.

Keywords

💡AGI

AGI stands for artificial general intelligence and refers to AI systems that can perform any intellectual task that a human being can, including creativity, reasoning, and learning. In the video, the narrator argues AGI is the single most important invention in human history that will change the world, even though he initially doubted it would happen anytime soon.

💡animators

Animators are professionals who create 2D or 3D animated content. The video questions if innovations like AI image generation will displace the over 2 million animators globally who currently earn around $75,000 per year.

💡drones

Drones or quadcopters are remote controlled aerial vehicles often equipped with cameras. The video shows how AI can now generate highly realistic drone footage without needing an actual drone or pilot.

💡job displacement

Job displacement refers to jobs being eliminated due to technological innovation or economic shifts. The video speculates that AI could displace countless jobs like videographers, animators, drone operators, and more.

💡stock footage

Stock footage companies provide licensed video content for use in film, TV, ads, etc. But with AI able to generate realistic video on demand, the video questions if stock footage companies will even be needed.

💡time travel

The video jokingly suggests AI video generation makes time travel companies obsolete by creating realistic footage of different time periods like the California Gold Rush.

💡uncanny valley

The uncanny valley is the unsettling feeling caused by humanlike robots or animations that appear almost real but not perfectly lifelike. The video claims AI generated video has crossed this valley and looks real to most people.

💡videographers

Videographers are professionals who operate cameras and capture footage for video productions. With 875,000 videographers in the US earning $62,000 on average, the video asks if AI will displace many of these jobs.

💡visual effects

Visual effects (VFX) studios add special effects post-production to live action footage. The video implies innovations like AI could reduce the need for some VFX work.

💡watermark

Watermarks help identify the creator and prevent unauthorized use of media. The video points out the AI watermark allows you to distinguish computer generated footage, but it's easy to remove.

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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