The negative comments here shock me. This is the most amazing text-to-video we've ever seen, by a longshot. It's good enough for many uses. Absolutely mindblowing. Great job to the people who worked on this.
Also, ever since the Gemini marketing video shenanigans, I don't really feel like trusting whatever Google's research says they have, if I can't test it myself.
The video was released by Google product marketing for a launch to customers, not research.
I'm still somewhat confused by this one. I understand the community has decided to be harsh on Google for that video to draw a line - fair, truth in advertising, etc. -, but at the same time, we all had an understanding of where that tech is at currently and the pace it progresses at. Did anyone watching it really assume it was realtime? Can we not differentiate between technical publications and marketing anymore? Do we have to vilify everyone in an R&D department for the sins of the product marketing wing?
It was completely dishonest. Considering how trash Googles actual AI products are they deserve to be dragged even more over that video.
>We train our T2V model on a dataset containing 30M videos along with their text caption. [...] We evaluate our model on a collection of 113 text prompts describing diverse objects and scenes. The prompt list consists of 18 prompts assembled by us and 95 prompts used by prior works (Singer et al., 2022; Ho et al., 2022a; Blattmann et al., 2023b) (see App. B). Additionally, we employ a zero-shot evaluation protocol on the UCF101 dataset >
Google can publish whatever research they want, literally doesn’t matter literally changes nothing because they can’t turn it into a product anyone can use and never will.
The home assistant speakers aren’t making enough money to justify the large teams behind them. Thus we’ve seen significant layoffs on those teams in the past year.
BigCos are looking for other ways to reduce costs. Killing features is one way to do it.
There have also been situations where a feature is removed because of legal action; lawsuits alleging the features violates a patent.
Live updates givith, live updates taketh away!
Of course building products for actual users is no longer a “thing”, but think of the stock price.
Years ago, I wouldn't even dare to dream it would be possible. It's nowhere near, what people are used to watch normally, but the fact it's even trying to compete is insane.