In the realm of artificial intelligence, innovation has no bounds. One of such groundbreaking creation is Sora from OpenAI, an embodiment of OpenAI’s relentless pursuit of pushing the boundaries of what AI can achieve. Let’s try to understand what SORA brings to table and what are drawbacks or can be potential harms of using SORA from OpenAI.
So, What Exactly is Sora?
You will be able to create visually stunning motion graphics and videos using Sora. Some of the examples are already live on YouTube.
Imagine this: you’re sitting at a cafe, scribbling down ideas for a short film. You picture a nice and clean New Delhi market at night, neon signs reflecting off the rain-slick streets, two friends laughing as they share ice-cream from Amul. With Sora, that scene literally jumps off the page. You just feed it a text description, and bam! – a full-fledged video, complete with movement and (believe it or not) emotions on the characters’ faces.
How does Sora from OpenAI work in reality?
Here is technical details on working from SORA from OpenAI.
Sora is a diffusion model, which generates a video by starting off with one that looks like static noise and gradually transforms it by removing the noise over many steps.
Sora is capable of generating entire videos all at once or extending generated videos to make them longer. By giving the model foresight of many frames at a time, we’ve solved a challenging problem of making sure a subject stays the same even when it goes out of view temporarily. Similar to GPT models, Sora uses a transformer architecture, unlocking superior scaling performance.
So, What Exactly is powering Sora from OpenAI?
Sora builds on past research in DALL·E and GPT models. It uses the re-captioning technique from DALL·E 3, which involves generating highly descriptive captions for the visual training data. As a result, the model is able to follow the user’s text instructions in the generated video more faithfully.
Sora webpage
Is Sora available for general public?
It’s important to remember that Sora is still under construction. OpenAI is being super careful about making sure this powerful tool is used responsibly. Currently its under testing for internal members call Red Team for potential harms and once they pass the product and are confident it can be released.
What threat can Sora from OpenAI or such AGI tools bring?
Being an AGI model with this much advanced capabilities, even it can generate video based from Image, this is terrifying as well simultaneously.
Just assume, how many Deepfake videos it can generate or how many animator and videographer it can put out of job. Following are some of the risks from Sora.
- Can generate realistic deepfake videos of popular persons without learning much complicated editing skills.
- Can generate stock images and footage used in small movies, videos and television production leaving actual human out of job.
- Electronic Equipment and Software industry will take hit as they won’t be required. You won’t need a DSLR and powerful editing software just to create a intro or theme video.
- Can take out on global economy by reducing the actual cost of video production. You don’t have to travel to actual location which impacts tour & travel industry as well.
- With this capability, soon enough it will be able to generate music by its own and then it will be more difficult for musicians and aspirants.
There can be many more negative sides as well. But time will tell how it is regulated and how advanced it can get. Meanwhile, share you views and ideas about how you feel about the topic and Sora being able to generate so much detailed and crisp videos without having any equipment.
