OpenAI is Building AGI, One Frame at a Time [Video]

Today, OpenAI launched its most-awaited video-generation model, Sora, which, according to the company, is a calculated step toward achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). 

“This is critical to our AGI roadmap. Video will be an important environment where we’re gonna learn, or the AI is gonna learn a lot about how to do things that we need in the world,” said OpenAI chief Sam Altman on the third day of the ‘12 Days of OpenAI’.

Unlike text-based interactions, which Altman called limiting, video enables AI systems to simulate and respond to real-world scenarios. “If the AI systems are primarily what you interact with by text, I think we’re missing something important,” said Altman, admitting that “this early version of Sora will make mistakes.” He, however, expressed confidence in its potential to advance AI capabilities and augment human creativity.

Sora’s latest release incorporates storyboard-based sequencing and dynamic video manipulation, which aim to move AI beyond generating videos …