Open AI’s new platform, SORA is mind bendingly crazy beautiful. The platform (model) was developed to create realistic… and I mean realistic… scenes from text. The current model can produce video up to one minute long, which is long enough to change reality. The SORA model was released to the RED TEAMERS, who will weigh in on the safety, risks & Harm aspects of releasing this to the wild. This, I think will be difficult to identify good vs. evil, for every mouse trap there is a smarter mouse.

Currently, the SORA platform has been handed out to a few artists, designers, filmographers, etc. Open AI is showing the public early work to give us a sense of the capabilities of what is on the horizon.

Click on the image below, but ONLY AFTER reading the prompt that was fed into the model to create this imagery. Crazy simple…..

Prompt: A stylish woman walks down a Tokyo street filled with warm glowing neon and animated city signage. She wears a black leather jacket, a long red dress, and black boots, and carries a black purse. She wears sunglasses and red lipstick. She walks confidently and casually. The street is damp and reflective, creating a mirror effect of the colorful lights. Many pedestrians walk about.

There are so many aspects of this video that you need to take in by watching this several times. My favorite… the skin detail and startling attention to detail in the reflection off her sunglasses.

There will be those who say, ‘Why would someone even develop these capabilities? It’s just going to lead to further chaos!”

Leave that question to rattle around for the binary talking heads. In the meantime, I commend OpenAI for sharing this, early. AI is already here–it’s not going away and I would hate to see a bit placed in the mouth of AI, catering to the least common denominator; we did not get to the moon without taking a risk.

I am betting that these developments in AI will provide a platform for humanity to advance–just like the calculators did in the 70’s, when the fear they would dumb down our engineering capabilities never happened. These are tools for humanity–time for humanity to stop staring at the glass for what is seen and see it for what it is. The medical, engineering, theatrical aspects, etc. are game changers.