Introducing Sora - the next level text to video AI from OpenAI

Introduction

No one can deny that the AI sector is full of new revelations, innovations and surprises. From the labs of OpenAI comes another huge AI product called Sora. This new addition to ChatGPT and a growing list of AI products is designed to generate videos from text prompts. While still at the testing stage, Sora will soon join the mainstream and be available to the public as a finished product. Lets look at some of the features of this text-to-video AI product.

What is Sora

We are already at home with text-based AI products made popular since the arrival of ChatGPT. Just enter some texts and you kick-off an interaction with language trained models that return text results based on the Query. Sora works like that because it is an AI platform too. The difference is that instead of text based interactions, Sora creates videos. OpenAI announced Sora few days ago on X.

Sora creates videos based on the text descriptions entered by the user. The model tries to make videos that exhaust the detail entered by the user. Each video which is 60 seconds long comes complete with background features, camera angles and character details as contained in the text prompt. With Sora, making 1 minute-long videos is now limited to the imagination of the user. Just describe what you want in detail and your video is ready in few clicks.

Features of Sora

• Rich, high resolution videos: Sora uses a language model that attempts to understand the natural world. Thus, the videos are as real as the description entered in the prompt. Sora can create videos that are up to 1020p. So the high resolution videos could be used for all purposes.

• Mimicking nature: Sora creates videos that look so real. The language model tries to capture the scenes as they appear in the natural world. This makes the videos appeal to the viewer as they identify with key natural elements contained in various scenes of the video.

• Limitations: Sora is still work in progress. It does create videos that contain some elements that are at odds with the natural copies. For example, it could generate videos of a person walking or running with the legs moving in an unnatural way. Here is a disclaimer included in the Sora platform below:

The current model has weaknesses. It may struggle with accurately simulating the physics of a complex scene, and may not understand specific instances of cause and effect. For example, a person might take a bite out of a cookie, but afterward, the cookie may not have a bite mark. From Sora

• User policy: Sora includes a user agreement and technology that prevent it from generating videos that are offensive in nature. While it has the capability to generate realistic videos, it will decline prompts that request explicit material. Any prompts that ask for violence, sex or other offensive scenes in a video will not be allowed by Sora.

Further development.

OpenAI is still working to make Sora a complete product. Apart from technological innovation and advancement, Sora will be working with experts from the video industry who will contribute their expertise to finetune the final product. For example, the technology will still need to be trained to understand nature more, so that video data will not only be accurate, but also mirror what is obtainable in the real world.

Also, the team would like to make Sora acceptable worldwide. Hence, they will also get governments involved in the development to ensure that videos generated by Sora do not break regional or international laws of any country.

Finally

AI technology is rapidly growing and finding relevance in many sectors. The new dimension introduced by Sora will extend the frontiers of video content creation and AI capabilities. We will continue to follow this trend and further development of Sora as we explore what is possible in the AI revolution.