Don Allen Stevenson III’s Post

🚨 Alert: New animals have been discovered! Girafflamingo, Flying Pigs, Whalepus, and Eel Cat, among others, are now a reality… or so you might think, until you realize it's the creative genius of Don Allen Stevenson III at work, using OpenAI's Sora. Since Sora was introduced to the world last month, there has been a wave of collaboration between the platform and a diverse group of creatives. These partnerships have illuminated the varied ways in which Sora can enhance the creative process, showcasing the first collection of videos crafted with this innovative tool. With Sora, Don has embarked on a journey of imagination, creating videos of never-before-seen animal hybrids as showcased in the video. He praises Sora's "weirdness" as its greatest strength, which enables him to bypass traditional constraints and dive into a realm of pure creativity. 👉 Can you imagine integrating such a tool into your own workflow? #OpenAI #Sora #ArtificialIntelligence 

Is your AI Glass Half Full or Empty? Linked below is OpenAI’s latest share on what’s cooking with their Gen AI video tool Sora. This time around they invited a short list of hyper talented creators to play with their tool. https://lnkd.in/getSnaAY Paul Trillo's experiments prove yet again what a shooting star he continues to be in this space; such explosive creativity (though a bit dizzying here depending on your device). I personally enjoyed even more the piece he posted on his personal page yesterday telling the story of the Sagan Family’s famous Golden Record (Link in comments). Don Allen Stevenson III's whimsical take on the wildlife documentary genre. Seems like in his mind is really where the wild things are! The one that really stayed with me is the "Air Head" film from shy kids. Among this crop of shorts it’s the most narrative and perhaps analogous to the type of storytelling many of us are engaged in. It’s a humorous piece following the self-narration of a person in the world who has a balloon for a head (hence the title). Creatively, I can’t help but wonder if this is actually autobiographical and we are seeing someone’s inner monologue using this fantastical imagery to communicate feelings. I personally love this potential of how AI video can express more intimately experiences that lack b-roll or archival. But on a production level we enter the tug of war of the moment… there’s the main VFX conceit which in a traditional world mainly involves adding a CGI balloon over originally shot material. But seemingly (details aren't currently transparent) Sora generates the entirety of this film. Look at how many shots this film involves, locations, aerials, elaborate camera positioning, days shooting. I suspect that’s usually a costly short film with lots of people employed to produce it... which delivers on the fear of replacement so many have about this technology. On the other hand would this film ever actually get made? Perhaps it serves a commercial brand’s values in which case they might fund something this unusual and hire all those people. But if it’s mainly a personal expression of a creator, what an amazing delivery of normally unattainable production resources within apps and tools accessible someday from anyone’s home. This is an uncomfortable friction of the moment for many. Being myself among the many people in transition due to the changes in our industry, I don’t necessarily welcome more disruption and uncertainty for me and my community. But I can’t help but feel that when it becomes easier and faster to make creative things, more creative things happen and usually more opportunities emerge. I’m pretty sure that’s the case of how YouTube generated a multi-billion dollar economy by bringing the previously gate-kept powers of global distribution into the average creator’s hands. It's a tricky one to predict, but what do you all think? #ai #filmmaking #Sora #creatoreconomy

I predicted 2024 would be the year of early agentive AI, and the release of the R1 and 01 Light unequivocally confirms that. Open Interpreter just released the 01 Light, a portable voice interface that controls your computer, learns new skills, and uses your apps. With 40k GitHub stars and the first batch selling out in 2.5 hours, it's becoming clear that devs are going all-in on AI agents. Peep the demo 👇

NVIDIA just announced Project GROOT so humanoid robots can learn in the real (and digital) world. GROOT is a foundational model that takes language, videos, and example demonstrations as inputs so it can produce the next action. What the heck does that mean? ➡️ It means you can show it how to do X a few times, and then it can do X on its own. Like cooking, drumming, or… ♻️ Repost so your friends know what’s coming