Written by丨Liu Nana.
Editor丨MeiqiEntertainment Value Officer Interpretation:
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OpenAI released the first ** generative model SORA on February 15 and showed several short videos of Wensheng**Musk said on his social ** on the same day: GG HUMANS (human beings admit defeat).
Although AIGC is not new, SORA has more outstanding advantages than previous models, not only does it have a deeper understanding of the text, it can accurately present the picture of keywords, but also can create multiple shots in a generated **, accurately preserving the character and visual style. This time,Sora also gained so much attention because of its ability to understand the physical properties and relationships between different elements in complex scenes, and to correctly represent how they exist in the physical world. OpenAI calls this large model "the foundation of a model capable of understanding and simulating the real world" and believes that its capabilities "will be an important milestone in achieving AGI."
It can be seen from these worksSora doesn't just create realistic and imaginative scenes based on text commandsAnd this 1 minute** is still a shot to the end。Judging from the works released so far, in these **, the protagonists and background characters have reached an amazing consistency, various shots are switched at will, and the characters maintain stability. Pupils, eyelashes, **texture, animal coat color, movements, and relationship with the surrounding environment are realistic and do not smell strong AI smell.
In the past few days, almost all of them have pointed to the changes brought about by SORA to the film and television industry, and there are even headlines that directly make the judgment that "filmmakers will be collectively unemployed".。In this regard, the entertainment value officer hopes that through the dialogue with Lin Yuzhi, deputy director of the Standing Committee of Science and Film Integration, it will bring more dimensional thinking to film and television practitioners and readers.
Interview introduction: Lin Yuzhi: Executive deputy director of the Science and Film and Television Integration Special Committee of the China Science Popularization Writers Association, he has served as a scientific consultant for science fiction film and television works such as "Lonely on the Moon", "Three-Body Problem" and "The Wandering Earth 2", and has been committed to promoting the development of China's science and film collaboration.
Lin Yuzhi
"Not yeta means of production to replace humans".
W (Entertainment Value Officer, hereinafter referred to as W):First of all, what are your thoughts after seeing the release of SORA** by Open AI?
Lin (Lin Yuzhi, hereinafter referred to as Lin):Both happy and disappointed.
It's nice to see that the ** model based on the language model paradigm came so quickly, and it's sad that it didn't achieve the effect we wanted to achieve as we originally conceived. There are many people on the Internet who say that it is a "world model" and "understands the laws of physics", but in fact, it is not a correct interpretation, and it is still the "language model" that is completely inconsistent with human habitual thinking.
w:At present, many comments are titled "Content creators are going to lose their jobs", as the closest person to AIGC, do you think that AI is really replacing humans? What specific jobs will it replace first?
Lin:We can't get answers from the future, but we can get some answers from history.
We can simply replace the question with "Was there some kind of production tool in history that replaced human beings?" ”
The answer is obviously: no.
On the contrary, the increase in productivity brought about by each upgrade of production tools has made mankind more prosperous. The incineration of machines by hand-cranked textile workers in Britain did not prevent automated machines from roaring into a new era.
Many people overestimate the role of a new AI development, but ignore the huge impact that AI has brought in the decades of silent moisturizing. For example, in the field of aerospace, as early as the early 90s of the last century, Mr. Yang Jiaqi, the founder of China's "two bombs and one satellite" and one of the advocates of the "863" plan, put forward the direction of "space intelligent control", and now we have too many industrial and civilian fields to benefit from it.
So, just like the impact of new scientific and technological breakthroughs in other fields on the real world,AI is not about replacing jobs, but about creating new jobs and new possibilities.
"Guo Fan spends four or five hours a day researching AI applications."w:What jobs will AI not be able to do better than humans in a century?
Lin:In a sense, science and technology are progressing slowly, but to a certain extent, they are speeding away in a direction that is increasingly incomprehensible to ordinary people. If humans never have an advantage in a single ability, many areas that are considered invincible by humans may be as embarrassing as Go.
Even the wildest imagination cannot accurately predict the world in a few decadesAfter a few years, if you don't understand AI, you may not be able to understand the world
If there is any ability that AI cannot do better than humans in a hundred years, it may be a "disappointing" thing.
w:Many friends in the film and television industry believe that SORA is the biggest benefit to science fiction film and television works, as the core personnel of science and film integration, how do you interpret the changes brought by the development of AIGC to science fiction themes?
Lin:Since ChatGPT, many text creation, film and television creation teams have been using it to improve productivity, and the quality of text drive generation and drive generation is getting higher and higherFor example, science fiction director Guo Fan once spent four or five hours a day studying various applications of AI.
Director Guo Fan's circle of friends
At present, it is visible to the naked eye that a large amount of content will emerge in the short ** field. Just like a mobile phone with a camera suddenly broke into the era of SLR camera domination, many professional photographers can see the shortcomings and limitations of mobile phone photography at a glance, but it does not prevent ordinary people from starting to study how to shoot well with mobile phones.
Once the cost of a certain field is reduced, such as science fiction film and television production, which has always been mistaken as "necessarily high-cost".The emergence of a large number of low-cost content that seems to be much better than the Wumao special effect seems to be a short-term possibility
But just as smartphones have been popularized for many years, there are still so few excellent photographers, and there are still so few masterpiecesSo, let's not let AIGC take on the burden that doesn't belong to its age.
W: Back in 2017, you boldly envisioned the disruptive way of creating films with artificial intelligence, so are you satisfied with the current level of creation of Sora?
Lin:Haha, I don't dare to say that it is **, in 2017, when I first led a team to investigate the integration path of science and technology and film, as a novice who knew nothing about the film industry, I asked too many questions, and one day I was asked by the filmmaker: "Mr. Lin, how do you think future movies should be made?" ”
My answer at the time was: ".In the future of film production, the main creative team sits in front of the supercomputing computer, a group of people discuss the input of a piece of text, hand it over to the AI to process, everyone drinks coffee and waits for the output of the movie, and then everyone revises and changes. "It was a good laugh.
Lin Yuzhi spoke at the forum
The emergence of SORA does not alleviate the embarrassment of that year, because I think that the future of high-quality films will be based on virtual production and cloud platforms AI-assisted creation mode, which still requires a large number of digital assets (although AI-assisted), and then the current main creative team - producers, directors, screenwriters, visual effects, lighting engineers, etc. are still indispensable (at least their professional knowledge is indispensable). It's just that AI optimizes the process and strengthens their individual power.
Because,Cinema is never a simple combination of picture and sound, it is our emotional empathy and resonance, our humanistic speculation and this society, and a period of immersion out of this world
Sora, or sora alone, is not enough to iterate on these.
Of course, the sora will never be benchmarked and grown according to the "movie", it is a new speciesIt will inevitably give rise to new art, and we warmly look forward to the birth of a new kind of art in human beings, which is the glory of AI!
"Dune 2" is blessed by technology, the picture is amazing, and it has been praised for its direct story
W: In your opinion, how long does AI still have to develop before it can truly "eat scripts and spit out movies"?
Lin:Eat the script, spit out the movie, if you just simply achieve this, it should be very soon, very soon,Maybe the next big version of ChatGPT comes out, and it will be enough to turn the world upside down
w:Do you use Sora to create a paragraph**? Or use other AIGC for your creative experience? Did the AI implement your idea?
Lin:Haven't created with Sora yet**. Other AI tools have really helped me a lot over the past yearIncreased efficiency,Curiosity satisfied, but that's all, it's far, far from what we really want Jarvis, Friday, and so on
Hopefully, in my lifetime.
"There are only two things that will occupy human life in the future".
w:What film and television-related projects and works will you be involved in this year?
Lin:In 2024, everyone is looking forward to "Ball Lightning"!
w:What is your biggest takeaway from the experience of science and film integration?
Lin:Coming from the world of science and the world of film, two of the most creative people collided together, and every time it made me feel that everything I did was worth it.
Watching scientists work with scientists in other fields, scientists and filmmakers, sometimes it's fun just to watch them fight. From "Lonely on the Moon" to the "Three-Body Problem" TV series and "The Wandering Earth 2", these masterpieces of science and film integration have a unique spiritual temperament that is different from other works of the same era, which will make people smile like an old father
w:A more personal question is, if you are close to science and witness the professional disruption that technology has brought to mankind, what kind of major would you let your child choose? What kind of learning style (method) do children choose?
Lin:There must be two things that will occupy our lives in the future:Art full of scientific advancement, scientific and technological products full of artistic atmosphere.
As a science and technology worker, I definitely hope that "being a scientist" will become the dream of more Chinese children, and we are also working hard to make science and technology work an attractive job and a career that children respect and yearn for.
As a father, I always hope that my children can have a better general education and have a basic understanding of the nature and humanity of this world. Read more, watch more documentaries! This is not only an expectation for the child, but also an encouragement to oneself.