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Anybody old enough to remember when https://imagen.research.google/video/ was SOTA?

do you remember that article from google where it would hallucinate as if it was on acid/psychedelics and people going crazy saying this is the AI "imagining reality" and then shortly after some Googler went on a very brief media tour saying LLMs were sentient?

its crazy how much people extrapolate, the consensus back then was "cute but we won't get there" then suddenly we got GPT 3.0, 4o, 5.x, seedance

what people really underestimate is how much faster progress is now with AI

That phase was amazing, lots of crazy animal faces in iridescent paisley :)

Unfortunately trillions of dollars have been invested to ensure that's not the case..

unlikely unless they ban capitalism