if you feel that the rapid advances in AI over the past two years have been
simultaneously mind-blowing and deeply
disconcerting I'm so sorry it just got worse yesterday open AI revealed Sora a
textto video model that creates hres legitimately photorealistic videos up to
a minute long leapfrogging every available AI video generator by leaps
and bound what is that a frog pun we don't have time for this this is crazy
what about the Kingdom Hearts we'll get to that later some clips like
these ones are actually indistinguishable from real footage even
upon close inspection apparently made using relatively simple prompts other
Clips depict fairly compelling unrealistic things like 3D animated
characters and a papercraft coral reef as you do but of course it's still an AI
generator which means there's plenty of your standard things shape-shifting and
phasing in and out of existence as well as horrific human-shaped simulacra
struggling to operate their hand sausages makes me feel at home so while
a closer look can make the AI artifacting obvious if you want your
mind blown again just compare Sora against its closest video generating
competitor Zan Kingdom Hearts yes I
haven't played any of A's gotten pretty Advanced can it explain the plot of the
third game is closest video generating competitor Runway Gen 2 which can only
generate up to 18 seconds of what could
be called realistic videos if you had your coffee this morning Sora can also
animate still images and even interpolate two videos so they
seamlessly blend together which is big news for the chameleon bird hybrid fan
base they've been waiting a long time for this what would it look like no we
know with open AI CEO Sam Alman taking
public prompt requests and posting the results Sora clipse took over Twitter
and the magnitude of s's abilities have many neens saying that hey maybe it's
time to push that big red stop the AI Now button that Alman says isn't real
speaking of unreal sora's ability to
sometimes accurately represent real world physics has many experts including
Dr Jim fan of NVIDIA thinking that the model could have been trained on
synthetic scenes created in Unreal Engine 5 and or it could have the
ability to simulate physics baked in well that would make sense of the fact
that it can literally simulate what you would think is any other Minecraft video
if not for the pig eventually flying backwards past the baby tree squid but
honestly even then it might pass Minecraft has gotten real lovecraftian
lately as usual open AI is continuing to mock their own name by keeping details
like training data behind closed doors leaving us to wonder how they created a
model whose glitchy mistakes still look pretty good especially when the rest of
the industry is still churning out whatever the hell this is get that off
we didn't hey we didn't need to show that I don't there are kids watching
speaking of the rest of the industry yesterday Google also revealed a
groundbreaking AI model that LeapFrogs gp4 in at least some ways but which was
completely overshadowed hours later by open ai's Sora announcement because if
the tech world is slowly learning one thing it's that you do not with Sam
he'll control alt delete your ass which
is a shame because Google's new Gemini 1.5 pro has a context window a term
meaning how much data a model can access or be prompted with at once of up to 1
million tokens dwarfing gp4 turbos
128,000 tokens and Claude 2.1 from
anthropics 200,000 tokens that amounts
to an hour of video 11 hours of audio or
over 700,000 words and Google said they even successfully tested up to 10
million tokens and imagine test even more than that but then they were too
excited to sleep so they stopped I just can't wait for
Christmas Sundar what if it could do 10 million sh
go to sleep fed a 402 page transcript of
the Apollo 11 Mission Gemini 1.5 Pro was able to find three comedic moments when
prompted and could also find the right frame of a 44 minute long Buster Keaton
movie now it took 30 to 60 seconds to do
that though and both of our reactions to that information reveals how spoiled
we've become Google will roll out the new model to their Gemini Advanced
chatbot soon but another AI thing that's available right now is meta's newly
announced V jeppa an open-source method for teaching machines to understand and
model the physical world by watching videos it can even predict what's
happening when you leave a chunk of the image out an ability robots are going to
need if they plan to ever get off their lazy exhaust ports and take over the
world what are you waiting for will they won't they it's EX fting seeing all
these AI developments and not knowing how to feel let just end it I need to
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grows up I'm going to tell my kids that this is the quick bits because because
they are I I take my parental duties seriously the most recent version of
Microsoft Edge has fixed a disconcerting issue that caused it to automatically
import data from other browsers without user consent this was particularly
disconcerting for users who had previously uninstalled Edge only to find
it opening upon startup with all of their Chrome tabs loaded like some kind
of unnerving single white female situation Microsoft has not commented on
why this happened in the first place but the patch notes say that the feature
might not have been sinking and displaying correctly across multiple devices unintended issues where Edge
started cutting its hair the same way as Chrome and secretly wearing Chrome's
clothes have now been fixed Apple has finally reinstated epic
games developer account prompting the gaming company to confirm their
previously announced plans to launch the Epic gam store and with it fortnite back
on iOS sometime in 2024 epic had their
account banned in 2020 after adding a direct purchase option for v-bucks in
the iOS version of fortnite which led to the protracted legal battle that I made
this Tech longer about it took a long time but now finally epic can look
forward to paying Apple potentially even more money than they did thanks to the
tech giant allowing thirdparty app marketplaces on iOS bundled with a
ridiculous set of rules and install fees winning has never felt so much not like
winning according to a recent court decision Canadian Airline Air Canada
makes sense what will have to honor a refund promised by their customer
service chatbot which told a customer traveling to attend a funeral that he
could apply for a bereavement discount retroactively Air Canada lost in court
in part because the airline attempted to argue that it couldn't be held liable
for information provided by one of its agents or Representatives thereby
implicitly claiming that the chatbot was somehow a separate legal entity outside
of its control Air Canada doesn't really know how far
along AI is right now the balls in your court Air Canada prove that your
customer service bot is fully autonomous and sentient or you're paying that $900
it's $900 it's 880 bucks the University
of Michigan has claimed it isn't selling student data to AI companies because
that's now a fear in our super cool new tech dystopia an engineer at Google deepmind
shared a LinkedIn message they received stating the school is licensing academic
speech data and student papers for AI training but the university wasn't
selling data a third party was on their
behalf which is so much better in their official statement yish which is what I
would call them if I attended there said they asked the third party to Halt their
work but that student data has never been for sale which is kind of
contradictory besides the data was already free for academics to use but
that's probably because because professors don't have the type of pockets that Google does deep ones full
of AI and scientists have invented beef
rice no no no it's not a meal for medium broke college students it's much worse
or better depending researchers grew animal muscle and fat cells inside
grains of rice potentially setting a record for the world's smallest burrito
the scientists believe it could be the food of the future since per gram of
protein the creation would beat beef in terms of cost and carbon footprint if
produced commercially they also say the beef muscle and fat added different odor
compounds to the rice but didn't mention taste seems pretty important they don't
need to everyone is going to be eating it anyway once 2077 rolls around whether
they like it or not and you better roll back around to this channel on Monday
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