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Sora, an amazing text-to-video model from OpenAI
And: Google introduces Gemini 1.5 | Is OpenAI gunning for Google Search?
AI Periscope
February 16, 2024
Exploring below the surface of AI headlines.
Summaries | Insights | Points of Views
In Today’s Edition
OpenAI’s Sora
Summary - Meet OpenAI’s Sora, the cutting-edge AI model taking the creative world by storm that transforms text instructions into vivid, realistic and ultra-smooth videos. Sora's magic lies in its ability to craft scenes teeming with life, emotion, motion, and accurate representation of subject and background; all from a simple natural language prompt. As it becomes accessible to a select group of early users, Sora stands on the brink of revolutionizing how we interact with, and create, digital content. This peek into Sora's capabilities and potential signals a thrilling leap forward in AI's journey into text-to-video - and who knows what’s next.
Buoy points:
Sora is an AI model that creates realistic videos from text instructions, simulating complex scenes and motions.
Videos can be up to a minute long, maintaining high visual quality and adherence to prompts.
The model is being tested by red teamers for safety and by creative professionals for functionality feedback, before broader release.
For now, it still has limitations in simulating precise physics and spatial details.
Safety measures include testing for bias, misinformation, and the ability to detect AI-generated content.
Sora uses an architecture similar to GPT models, and also builds on past research of DALL-E and GPT.
Check out all the Sora videos and prompts here on OpenAI’s site.
POV - Sora is amazing. The videos, while certainly not perfect, are still very realistic and smooth. It’s an incredible innovation that is sure to excite many but worry others as well. One future breakthrough could be the ability to create and edit with pinpoint accuracy, and make specific assignments such as creating and editing a scene with multiple actors and assign each a text script. We’re just at the beginning but how exciting this is. Of course, safety measures still need to be implemented first. Could you image the outrage if the Taylor Swift deep fake incident was made with text-to-video?
Gemini 1.5
Summary - Gemini 1.5 is hitting the AI scene with a bang, offering a giant leap in performance and capabilities over its predecessor. This next-gen AI model isn't just faster and smarter; it's breaking barriers with a whopping 1 million token context window for processing vast amounts of information with ease. Whether it's diving into the depths of code, summarizing long documents, or analyzing videos, Gemini 1.5 Pro is set to revolutionize the processing workload, and perhaps set a new standard for chatbots
Buoy points:
Gemini 1.5 introduces a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, significantly boosting its training and serving efficiency.
The model's context window has been expanded to 1 million multi-modal tokens, allowing for unparalleled information processing capabilities.
Gemini 1.5 Pro matches the performance of the previous version's largest model but with improved scaling across tasks.
It offers experimental long-context understanding, enabling detailed analysis of extensive data, such as lengthy documents or videos.
The model outperforms its predecessor on 87% of benchmarks.
It includes extensive ethics and safety testing to align with AI principles.
Limited early access for developers and enterprise customers is available, with plans for wider release and pricing tiers based on token context window size.
POV - The news of Gemini 1.5 came out first. Not to be out-done, OpenAI came out a few hours later and said, ‘Hold my beer’, and announced Sora. Both fantastic innovations dropping on the same day. Even though all eyes were on Sora because of the eye candy, Gemini 1.5 is certainly no slouch. It will be incredible to test its capabilities. Which news drop did you favor, Gemini or Sora?
OpenAI search
Summary - OpenAI is reportedly stepping into the ring against Google, aiming to revolutionize how we search the web. With the backing of Microsoft, OpenAI's rumored search product seeks to leverage of Bing and the innovative AI of ChatGPT to create a search experience that might just make Google sweat. It’s a bold move in the tech game, where Google has long sat comfortably on the throne of search. Bing has made a minor dent in Google’s dominance, but it buffed out easily. But in an industry where the underdog can sometimes leapfrog the giant, OpenAI’s challenge may be one to watch.
Buoy points:
OpenAI, backed by Microsoft's Bing Search, is reportedly working on a search engine to rival Google.
Google's dominance in search is under threat as OpenAI's project aims to offer a more context-rich, responsive AI search experience.
The rivalry highlights the growing importance of AI in shaping the future of web search, with potential shifts in user preferences.
OpenAI's ChatGPT has already made significant inroads, with over 180 million users.
Innovations in AI search could disrupt the search market, challenging Google's two-decade dominance in ad revenue.
Microsoft’s previous attempts to outdo Google, and occasional missteps, add an interesting element to this evolving competition.
POV - This clash of the titans will be interesting, and I believe it will be evolving for several years - or as long as we have this frenetic pace of AI advancements. Other search options, such as Copilot, Perplexity and You, are already in the game. I’m ready to see the next innovations in search, although I am not quite ready to see all the ads pop-up in chatbots - unfortunately, we’re already there.
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