OpenAI Unveils A.I. that Instantly Generates Eye-Popping Videos

Last April, a New York start-up called Runway AI revealed technology that let people generate videos. The four-second videos were shadowy and disturbing. But they were a clear sign that artificial intelligence technologies would generate increasingly     1     videos sooner. Just 10 months later, OpenAI has revealed a similar system, Sora, that creates videos that look as if they were lifted from a Hollywood movie.

OpenAI is among the many companies     2     to improve this kind of instant video generator. The technology could     3     the work of experienced moviemakers. It could also become a quick and inexpensive way of creating online     4    , making it even harder to tell what’s real on the internet.

In an interview, the team behind the technology said the company was not yet releasing Sora to the public because it was still working to understand the system’s     5    . The intention here is to give a(n)     6     of what is likely to happen soon, so that people can see the capabilities of this technology.

Like other generative A.I. technologies, OpenAI’s system learns by analyzing digital data — in this case, videos and subtitles describing what those videos contain. OpenAI declined to say how many videos the system learned from or where they came from, except to say the training included both     7     available videos and videos that were licensed from copyright holders. The company says little about the data used to train its technologies, most likely because it wants to     8     an advantage over competitors.

Sora generates videos in     9     to short descriptions. Though the videos can be impressive, they may include strange and     10     images. The system, for example, recently generated a video of someone eating a cookie — but the cookie never got any smaller.

Nowadays, the Internet plays an important role in our daily life.    1    , it also gives us many bad influences.

Some people think the Internet     2     makes us search for various kinds of information     3     can make us send e-mails to our families and friends for free.    4    , the Internet is     5    a good study tool     6     we can read thousands of books and learn English by ourselves.     7    , some other people think it is a waste of time to spend much time playing computer games,     8     will affect our study.    9    , it’s harmful to our physical and psychological health to search unhealthy websites.

    10    , the advantages of the Internet are more than its disadvantages.    11     we are able to balance the relationships among the Internet, life and study, we will enjoy the great joy that the Internet brings to us.