1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,720 If you feel that the rapid advances in AI over the past two years have been simultaneously 2 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:10,080 mind-blowing and deeply disconcerting, I'm so sorry, it just got worse. 3 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:16,820 Yesterday, OpenAI revealed Sora, a text-to-video model that creates high-res, legitimately photo-realistic 4 00:00:16,820 --> 00:00:23,200 videos up to a minute long, leapfrogging every available AI video generator by leaps 5 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:27,000 and bound. What is that, a frog-pun? We don't have time for this! 6 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,000 This is crazy! What about the Kingdom Hearts? 7 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:37,840 We'll get to that later. Some clips, like these ones, are actually indistinguishable from real footage, even upon close inspection, 8 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:40,960 apparently made using relatively simple prompts. 9 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:47,080 Other clips depict fairly compelling, unrealistic things like 3D animated characters and a papercraft 10 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:53,520 coral reef, as you do. But of course, it's still an AI generator, which means there's plenty of your standard 11 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:59,080 things, shape-shifting and phasing in and out of existence, as well as horrific human-shaped 12 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:03,520 simulacra, struggling to operate their hand sausages. 13 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:10,600 Makes me feel at home. So while a closer look can make the AI artifacting obvious, if you want your mind blown again, 14 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:14,400 just compare Sora against its closest video-generating competitor, 15 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:18,400 Kingdom Hearts? I haven't played it. 16 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:23,400 Hey, I've gotten pretty advanced! Can you explain the plot of the third game? 17 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:30,400 His closest video-generating competitor, Runway Gen 2, which can only generate up to 18 seconds 18 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:35,720 of what could be called realistic videos if you had your coffee this morning. 19 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:41,280 Sora can also animate still images and even interpolate two videos so they seamlessly 20 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:46,160 blend together, which is big news for the chameleon bird hybrid fanbase. 21 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:50,160 They've been waiting a long time for this. What would it look like? 22 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:57,040 No, we know. With OpenAI CEO Sam Altman taking public prompt requests and posting the results, Sora clips 23 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:03,360 took over Twitter. And the magnitude of Sora's abilities have many netizens saying that, hey, maybe it's 24 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:08,560 time to push that big red stop the AI now button that Altman says isn't real. 25 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaking of unreal, Sora's ability to sometimes accurately represent real-world physics has 26 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:20,480 many experts, including Dr. Jim Fan of NVIDIA, thinking that the model could have been trained 27 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:24,680 on synthetic scenes created in Unreal Engine 5. 28 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:28,880 And OR it could have the ability to simulate physics baked in. 29 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:33,240 Well, that would make sense of the fact that it can literally simulate what you would think 30 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:38,920 is any other Minecraft video if not for the pig eventually flying backwards past the baby 31 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:44,240 tree squid. But honestly, even then it might pass. Minecraft has gotten real Lovecraftian lately. 32 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:49,000 As usual, OpenAI is continuing to mock their own name by keeping details like training 33 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:54,400 data behind closed doors, leaving us to wonder how they created a model whose glitching mistakes 34 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:58,280 still look pretty good, especially when the rest of the industry is still churning out 35 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:11,280 whatever the hell this is. Speaking of the rest of the industry, yesterday Google also revealed a groundbreaking AI model 36 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:18,040 that leapfrogs GPT-4 in at least some ways, but which was completely overshadowed hours 37 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:21,120 later by OpenAI's Sora announcement. 38 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:25,440 Because if the tech world is slowly learning one thing, it's that you do not f*** with 39 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:29,040 Sam. He'll control Alt delete your ass. 40 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:34,800 Which is a shame because Google's new Gemini 1.5 Pro has a context window, a term meaning 41 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:40,880 how much data a model can access or be prompted with at once, of up to 1 million tokens, dwarfing 42 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:48,600 GPT-4 Turbo's 128,000 tokens and Claude 2.1 from Anthropix's 200,000 tokens. 43 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:54,560 That amounts to an hour of video, 11 hours of audio, or over 700,000 words. 44 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:59,880 When Google said they even successfully tested up to 10 million tokens, and imagined testing 45 00:03:59,880 --> 00:04:03,320 even more than that, but then they were too excited to sleep so they stopped. 46 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:09,680 I just can't wait for Christmas. Sundar, what if you could do 10 million? 47 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:17,000 Shhh, go to sleep. Fed, a 402 page transcript of the Apollo 11 mission, Gemini 1.5 Pro was able to find 48 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:22,720 three comedic moments when prompted, and could also find the right frame of a 44 minute long 49 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:29,600 Buster Keaton movie. Now it took 30 to 60 seconds to do that though, and both of our reactions to that information 50 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:36,920 reveals how spoiled we've become. Google will roll out the new model to their Gemini-advanced chatbot soon, but another AI 51 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:42,400 thing that's available right now is Meta's newly announced VJEPA, an open source method 52 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:47,440 for teaching machines to understand and model the physical world by watching videos. 53 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:51,200 It can even predict what's happening when you leave a chunk of the image out, and ability 54 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:56,120 robots are gonna need if they plan to ever get off their lazy exhaust ports and take 55 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:59,120 over the world. What are you waiting for? Will they? 56 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:04,760 Won't they? It's exhausting. Seeing all these AI developments and not knowing how to feel, I'd just end it. 57 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:08,560 When he grows up, I'm gonna tell my kid that this is the quick bits. 58 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:12,520 Because they are, I take my parental duties seriously. 59 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:17,600 The most recent version of Microsoft Edge has fixed a disconcerting issue that caused 60 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:22,320 it to automatically import data from other browsers without user consent. 61 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:26,840 This was particularly disconcerting for users who had previously uninstalled Edge, only 62 00:05:26,840 --> 00:05:31,800 to find it opening upon startup with all of their Chrome tabs loaded, like some kind of 63 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:38,720 unnerving single white female situation. Microsoft has not commented on why this happened in the first place, but the patch notes say 64 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:43,800 that the feature might not have been syncing and displaying correctly across multiple devices. 65 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:48,080 Issues where Edge started cutting its hair the same way as Chrome and secretly wearing 66 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:51,520 Chrome's clothes have now been fixed. 67 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:57,040 Apple has finally reinstated Epic Games developer account, prompting the gaming company to confirm 68 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:02,360 their previously announced plans to launch the Epic Games Store and, with it, Fortnite 69 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:05,800 back on iOS sometime in 2024. 70 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:10,960 Epic had their account banned in 2020 after adding a direct purchase option for V-Bucks 71 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:15,400 in the iOS version of Fortnite, which led to the protracted legal battle that I made 72 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:22,520 this tech longer about. It took a long time. But now, finally, Epic can look forward to paying Apple potentially even more money than 73 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:27,360 they did thanks to the tech giant allowing third-party app marketplaces on iOS bundled 74 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:30,360 with a ridiculous set of rules and install fees. 75 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:33,960 Winning has never felt so much, not like winning. 76 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:39,480 According to a recent court decision, Canadian airline Air Canada, makes sense, will have 77 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:45,080 to honor a refund promised by their customer service Chatbot, which told a customer traveling 78 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:50,360 to attend a funeral that he could apply for a bereavement discount retroactively. 79 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:55,240 Air Canada lost in court, in part because the airline attempted to argue that it couldn't 80 00:06:55,240 --> 00:07:00,320 be held liable for information provided by one of its agents or representatives, thereby 81 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:07,560 implicitly claiming that the Chatbot was somehow a separate legal entity outside of its control. 82 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:14,840 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 83 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:18,120 and sentient or you're paying that $900. 84 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:21,800 It's $900? It's $880. 85 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:27,200 The University of Michigan has claimed it isn't selling student data to AI companies 86 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:31,440 because that's now a fear in our super cool new tech dystopia. 87 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:36,800 An engineer at Google DeepMind shared a LinkedIn message they received stating the school is 88 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:42,400 licensing academic speech data and student papers for AI training. 89 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:47,840 But the university wasn't selling data, a third party was on their behalf, which is 90 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:52,880 so much better. In their official statement, UMich, which is what I would call them if I attended there, 91 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:57,920 said they asked the third party to halt their work, but that student data has never been 92 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:01,560 for sale. Which is kind of contradictory. 93 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:06,600 Besides, the data was already free for academics to use, but that's probably because professors 94 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:12,480 don't have the type of pockets that Google does, deep ones, full of AI. 95 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:20,000 And scientists have invented beef rice. No, no, no, it's not a meal for medium broke college students. 96 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:28,200 It's much worse. Or better, depending. Researchers grew animal muscle and fat cells inside grains of rice, potentially setting 97 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:35,840 a record for the world's smallest burrito. The scientists believe it could be the food of the future, since, per gram of protein, 98 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:41,900 the creation would beat beef in terms of cost and carbon footprint, if produced commercially. 99 00:08:41,900 --> 00:08:47,400 They also say the beef muscle and fat added different odor compounds to the rice, but didn't 100 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:50,920 mention taste. Seems pretty important. 101 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:56,680 They don't need to. Everyone is going to be eating it anyway once 2077 rolls around. 102 00:08:56,680 --> 00:09:01,920 And you better roll back around to this channel on Monday when we post a brand new talk link. 103 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:04,920 That's right. Everything. Talking. 104 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:07,920 And. Bye. Bye. 105 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:07,940 Bye.