The AI company OpenAI recently introduced its new text-to-video service Sora, which uses generative AI to create a video based on a text description. However, as Tesla boss Elon Musk said about X, his company has “the best real-world simulation and video generation in the world.”
• OpenAI introduces text-to-video service Sora
• Tesla boss Elon Musk presents videos generated by Tesla
• Musk was once active at OpenAI
After OpenAI’s two AI services for creating text and images, ChatGPT and DALL-E, were a great success, the company recently introduced a new service on its website. With the help of the AI model “Sora” “realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions” can be generated. This is a “text-to-video model”, whereby the generated videos can be up to a minute long. “Sora is capable of creating complex scenes with multiple characters, specific types of movement, and precise details of the subject and background. The model understands not only what the user asked for in the prompt, but also how these things appear in the physical world,” says the OpenAI website. However, the company points out that the current model still has some weaknesses. Among other things, it could happen that some physical effects are not yet fully understood. It is possible, for example, that a person in the video took a bite of a cookie, but the cookie would not show any change afterwards.
Tesla boss Elon Musk presents videos generated by Tesla
The presentation of the new Sora model was also heavily discussed on the price news platform X. Tesla boss Elon Musk took the opportunity to share some videos generated by Tesla in a post and to provide information about how the “General World Model” learns from Tesla. The videos shown are already a year old, wrote Musk.
Tesla generative video from last year
pic.twitter.com/s5ZodFigYe– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 18, 2024
According to Musk, the model is also able to generate real-world videos with correctly applied physics, with the training data coming from the cameras attached to the electric vehicles. For this reason, it is not interesting to use this model to create other types of generative videos. The videos shown in the post would look like normal videos, but were actually created with a “dynamically generated (unremembered) world”.
Is there a Tesla video game coming?
An X user then commented that Tesla should release its own video game, to which the tech billionaire replied that he had been meaning to do that for a long time. However, the driving assistance system (FSD), which is intended to enable autonomous driving without supervision, must first be completed: “Our simulation of the real world and our video generation are the best in the world, but unfortunately we can only develop a game once we have the unsupervised FSD release, which is actually much more secure than the monitored FSD,” said Musk.
According to the Tesla boss, it is essential for the electric car manufacturer’s General World Model that it applies physics with absolute precision. In this regard, the capabilities of Tesla’s video generation tool would exceed those of OpenAI, Musk said in another X post.
Musk’s past at OpenAI
The Tesla CEO has a shared past with OpenAI. Musk shared the chairmanship with CEO Sam Altman when the company was founded in December 2015. At that time, the Tesla boss, along with other Silicon Valley personalities such as Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman, pledged to provide $1 billion in funding to the project. At that time, OpenAI’s goal as a nonprofit company was to advance the development of artificial intelligence “in a way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole,” as the statement on the OpenAI website said at the time.
Own AI company xAI
In 2018, Musk turned his back on the company, which is now a Microsoft holding, in order to prevent “potential future conflicts” from arising in the first place. Since then, the visionary has not held back from criticizing the AI company. Especially recently, there are many posts in his X timeline that are reminiscent of OpenAI’s original mission. Musk has now founded his own AI company called xAI. The website says: “At xAI, we want to develop AI tools that support humanity in its search for understanding and knowledge.” The company has also already launched its own AI model called “Grok”, which is based on “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”. It remains to be seen to what extent the text robot will be able to compete with ChatGPT from OpenAI.
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