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Google just launched VideoPoet, and it's insane
It's literally ChatGPT for:
- Text-to-Video
- Image-to-Video
- Inpainting
- Video Editing
Here're 10 wild examples:
Tweets From Poonam Soni
@CodeByPoonam on Twitter
There is a mass experience of what Arendt called “worldlessness,” the absence of a common world and common experiences, which leads to the loss of a common sense that could put the lid on absurd hysterias like this one. If you point out the poverty and say, “Hey, this is not healthy,” the right-wing populist move is to attack you for being a liberal elitist, which is kind of true. You are, because you don’t have an alternative except snobbery. Conservatism is now the protection and hoarding of old-seeming simulacra and simulations, hence all the AI-generated “traditionalism.”
The Cracker Barrel Hype
John Ganz
It was not difficult to eye the hard, cold material takeover as evil, even if a necessary evil. When technology appeared among our age-old routines, it was set outside ourselves and treated like an infection. People embraced its products, but guiltily.
What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly
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