OpenAI Launches Sora — Revolutionary Text-to-Video AI Model

Highlights:

• OpenAI introduces Sora, a text-to-video AI model for creating one-minute videos from textual prompts.
• Sora operates as a diffusion model, refining static noise into coherent visuals.
• OpenAI commits to developing tools for content detection
• The company collaborates with experts to address potential harms.

Do you want to see a wyvern fighting a same-sized dragon? Do you wish to reproduce your version of Jurassic Park? Thanks to innovative AI technology, you can generate such CG animations within moments.

On February 15, OpenAI introduced its latest creation, Sora, a text-to-video AI model capable of producing videos of up to one minute based on user textual prompts. While the AI technology was not released to the public at the time of writing this, its reveal and the teasers we’ve seen on Sam Altman’s X handle have sparked significant interest and discussion online.

OpenAI Sora as Demonstrated by Sam Altman

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman invited prompt suggestions and demonstrated Sora’s capabilities by generating various videos.

We present you The Bling Zoo!

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— Sam Altman (@sama) February 15, 2024

A beachside bicycle race featuring different aquatic animals.

https://t.co/qbj02M4ng8 pic.twitter.com/EvngqF2ZIX

— Sam Altman (@sama) February 15, 2024

A how-to-make-gnocchi session hosted by your average Italian grandmother with cinematic lighting.

https://t.co/rmk9zI0oqO pic.twitter.com/WanFKOzdIw

— Sam Altman (@sama) February 15, 2024

These are only some of the many prompts suggested by the followers that were then generated and shared by the OpenAI CEO on his X handle.

A Text-to-Video Generator: The All-New Revolutionary AI Technology

OpenAI is known for bringing ChatGPT and the text-to-image generator DALL-E to the masses. It has been among the tech start-ups leading the transformative wave of generative AI technology since 2022.

Its latest offering, Sora, operates as a diffusion model, generating videos by gradually refining static noise into coherent visuals across multiple steps. According to OpenAI, Soracan generate entire videos instantly or extend existing ones by anticipating future frames, ensuring continuity even if subjects briefly exit the frame.

The videos and images are represented as patches, resembling tokens in GPT, facilitating training in a broader array of visual data when it comes to duration, resolution, and aspect ratio.

Sora incorporates the recaptioning technique from DALL·E 3 to generate descriptive captions for training data, increasing fidelity to user instructions in generated videos.

The text-to-video model generates videos from text instructions, accurately animates still images, and fills in missing frames in existing videos. This foundational model advances understanding and simulation of the real world, a vital step toward achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

Although in its formative stages, Sora can accurately generate multiple characters engaging in various activities. The purpose of rushing the announcement of this AI technology, which is still very much in the pipeline, is to enable Sora to comprehend and simulate physical interactions with the world.

Case in point: These golden retrievers podcasting on a mountaintop.

https://t.co/uCuhUPv51N pic.twitter.com/nej4TIwgaP

— Sam Altman (@sama) February 15, 2024

OpenAI’s Sora is Far from Launching

OpenAI has acknowledged that Sora cannot accurately represent complex scenes, potentially resulting in illogical outcomes or distortions.

Despite this disclaimer, many of the demonstrations showcased by the OpenAI spearhead featured remarkably realistic visual details, blurring the lines between AI-generated content and original footage.

If this street-level tour didn’t feature holograms and architecture that doesn’t exist in the real world, we would have a hard time believing it was generated by AI technology.

https://t.co/rPqToLo6J3 pic.twitter.com/nPPH2bP6IZ

— Sam Altman (@sama) February 15, 2024

A Detection Classifier and More

OpenAI has affirmed its commitment to developing tools to detect AI-generated content, such as a detection classifier that is hopefully nothing like its disastrous equivalent for detecting AI-written content. It is also working on embedding metadata to identify the origin of such content.

Additionally, the company is collaborating with experts to assess Sora’s potential for causing harm through misinformation, hate speech, and bias.

In response to safety concerns, OpenAI intends to publish a system card detailing its safety evaluations and the risks and limitations of the text-to-video AI model.

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If OpenAI says their text-to-video AI model follows user instructions to a T, you’ll just have to take their word for it.

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