OpenAI’s generative artificial intelligence video maker has techies in a twist after the tool, named Sora, created a creepy clip of a gymnast contorting her body in a series of astounding — and entirely unnatural — moves.
The unsettling visuals, requested by a Sora user via text prompt, showed the dancer spinning her way erratically through a series of mostly impossible stunts.
Occasionally, the body appeared to be flying away as well — in what appeared to be an exorcism in progress.
We hoped AI video would learn physics by default, but that hasn’t happened yet!” Others recognized that generative AI, which also struggles greatly with copying language, still has much to learn about human mechanics.
“Watching Sora struggle with basic physics tells you how simulation of reality requires actually understanding it first,” one user commented.
A stretch, huh?
When the tool, called Sora, produced a spooky video of a gymnast bending her body in a series of amazing — and completely unnatural — moves, OpenAI’s generative artificial intelligence video maker had techies stunned.
When a Sora user requested the eerie images via text prompt, the dancer was seen wildly spinning through a series of nearly impossible stunts.
In what seemed to be an ongoing exorcism, the body occasionally seemed to be flying away as well.
The groundbreaking AI has not yet passed the “Turing Test,” which is a term used to describe how machines exhibit human-like intelligence—or lack thereof—as critics quickly pointed out.
Because of the wide range of motion capture, the fintech worker who created the footage stated on X that gen AI gymnastics videos are currently the yardstick for how successful the self-made footage can be.
The man, who goes by Deedy Das online, told Ars Technica, “I’ve known for the last six months, having played with text to video models, that they struggle with complex physics movements like gymnastics.”.
Other videos of AI gymnastic feats were shared by the X user, in which the athlete occasionally seemed to split into two people.
Nevertheless, he pointed out that these clips today are still far more advanced than what AI was capable of doing on the same topic six months ago.
“All in all, it was a step up from before because the gymnast would simply teleport away or change their outfit in the middle of a flip, but it still looks absolutely awful.”. We had hoped that AI video would automatically pick up physics, but that hasn’t happened yet.
Others acknowledged that generative AI still has a lot to learn about human mechanics, even though it also has significant difficulties with language copying.
One user wrote, “Seeing Sora struggle with basic physics serves as a reminder that understanding reality is necessary before simulating it.”.
As one of the most difficult concepts to encode, we’re learning that “common sense” is anything but common. “”.
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