Comment by qwery | Hacker News Reader

Comment by qwery | Hacker News Reader

What can you even say about this stuff? It's another incremental improvement, good job Mark. These new video clips of yours are certainly something. I don't know how you do it. Round of applause for Mark!

I will now review some of the standout clips.

That alien thing in the water is horrifying. The background fish look pretty convincing, except for the really flamboyant one in the dark.

I guess I should be impressed that the kite string seems to be rendered every frame and appears to be connected between the hand and the kite most of the time. The whole thing is really stressful though.

drunk sloth with weirdly crisp shadow should take the top slot from girl in danger of being stolen by kite.

man demonstrates novel chain sword fire stick with four or five dimensions might be better off in the bin...

> The camera is behind a man. The man is shirtless, wearing a green cloth around his waist. He is barefoot. With a fiery object in each hand, he creates wide circular motions. A calm sea is in the background. The atmosphere is mesmerizing, with the fire dance.

This just reads like slightly clumsy lyrics to a lost Ween song.

it's totally wild that your first response is shitting on flaws rather than having your jaw drop at machines producing coherent videos from text.

This is _the worst that machines will ever be at this task_, and most of the improvements that need to be made are a matter of engineering ingenuity, which can be translated to research dollars.

This is Hacker News. That comment was way more positive than I expected for something like this and so I assumed this must be pretty awesome

It certainly wasn't my intent to trash the whole thing, so I'm sorry it came across that way. They've done well. They combined a whole bunch of techniques in a new way, or at least in a better way than we've seen before. I don't think you should be surprised to see these results today.

> This is _the worst that machines will ever be at this task_

This is wrong. We've seen worse and we've seen far, far worse -- what I mean is that we've seen plenty of iterative development in video generation. Even if you only consider machine-learning based video from text prompts. Then consider other generative systems as well as other video research and technology like motion interpolation, depth map generation, etc.. It's an extremely active field.

The fact that this is the worst machines are at something doesn’t necessarily imply they will eventually get much better at it.

Round of applause for this useless unsubstantiated comment

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