Google Answers Meta's Video-Generating AI With Its Own, Dubbed Imagen Video

Not to be outdone by Meta's Make-A-Video, Google today detailed its work on Imagen Video, an AI system that can generate video clips given a text prompt (e.g., "a teddy bear washing dishes"). From a report:While the results aren't perfect -- the looping clips the system generates tend to have artifacts and noise -- Google claims that Imagen Video is a step toward a system with a "high degree of controllability" and world knowledge, including the ability to generate footage in a range of artistic styles. As my colleague Devin Coldewey noted in his piece about Make-A-Video, text-to-video systems aren't new. Earlier this year, a group of researchers from Tsinghua University and the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence released CogVideo, which can translate text into reasonably-high-fidelity short clips. But Imagen Video appears to be a significant leap over the previous state-of-the-art, showing an aptitude for animating captions that existing systems would have trouble understanding. "It's definitely an improvement," Matthew Guzdial, an assistant professor at the University of Alberta studying AI and machine learning, told TechCrunch via email. "As you can see from the video examples, even though the comms team is selecting the best outputs there's still weird blurriness and artificing. So this definitely is not going to be used directly in animation or TV anytime soon. But it, or something like it, could definitely be embedded in tools to help speed some things up."

Hmm.. modern studios better watch out.

[RightSaidFred99]

These videos are already better than 30% of the TV and movies released these days, so in a few years they'll dominate the media market.

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[Micah NC]

This ! How are there not a bunch of start ups wanting to eliminate the studios with this ?

Better than "a teddy bear washing dishes"...

[ffkom]

... would be "Winnie Pooh bear driving a tank on Tiananmen square", as such a test would provide some indication on whether China has as much as a vice grip around AI movie generators than it already has around Hollywood's movie industry.

Where is it at?

[Locke2005]

I just can't wait to feed the entire text of Penthouse Forums into these video generators! But seriously, isn't the porn industry the earliest adopter of most new technology?

Just wait and pay up

[kaur]

Soon, you will have to upgrade to Pornhub Super VIP Plus Family Plan to get any actual humans in your feed.

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[Locke2005]

There is already way too much CGI porn in my feed. Call me old-fashioned, but I actually want to see the pimples on their butts!

hm...cool

[jacquelyn_norris]

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