The obligatory comment is located at bottom (that is future anticipation oriented like the "cultural singularity" dread that the article eventually overlaps, where truth and fiction become indistinguishable via the deceptions of AI).
AI video just took a startling leap in realism. Are we doomed?
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/ai-video-just-took-a-startling-leap-in-realism-are-we-doomed/
INTRO: Last week, Google introduced Veo 3, its newest video generation model that can create 8-second clips with synchronized sound effects and audio dialog—a first for the company's AI tools. The model, which generates videos at 720p resolution (based on text descriptions called "prompts" or still image inputs), represents what may be the most capable consumer video generator to date, bringing video synthesis close to a point where it is becoming very difficult to distinguish between "authentic" and AI-generated media... (MORE - details)
video link: What is real anymore? (Veo 3 AI Video with sound)
COMMENT: And what seems another incremental step for enhanced simulated reality. Generating and maintaining an entire cosmos is impossible, so the minimalism of only outputting convincing and inter-consistent perceptions of an outer environment for the digital residents, is necessary. Those individual "sensory experiences" kept lawfully coordinated with each other. With the generation of personal thoughts being less so, since there's no devotion to objectivity in that context, anyway.
Adversarial networks constantly critiquing each other will, of course, be the essential addition to such an SR system, since today's trained but still "stupid" AI video/audio complex will flop when it comes to sustained coherence over time. Also, knowledge of what processes yield phenomenal experiences must be acquired -- although digital residents that are philosophical zombies would probably still seem to be performing fine from our "external to that reality" perspective (as if they truly did possess our private manifestations of sensory-related information and thoughts).
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AI video just took a startling leap in realism. Are we doomed?
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/ai-video-just-took-a-startling-leap-in-realism-are-we-doomed/
INTRO: Last week, Google introduced Veo 3, its newest video generation model that can create 8-second clips with synchronized sound effects and audio dialog—a first for the company's AI tools. The model, which generates videos at 720p resolution (based on text descriptions called "prompts" or still image inputs), represents what may be the most capable consumer video generator to date, bringing video synthesis close to a point where it is becoming very difficult to distinguish between "authentic" and AI-generated media... (MORE - details)
video link: What is real anymore? (Veo 3 AI Video with sound)
COMMENT: And what seems another incremental step for enhanced simulated reality. Generating and maintaining an entire cosmos is impossible, so the minimalism of only outputting convincing and inter-consistent perceptions of an outer environment for the digital residents, is necessary. Those individual "sensory experiences" kept lawfully coordinated with each other. With the generation of personal thoughts being less so, since there's no devotion to objectivity in that context, anyway.
Adversarial networks constantly critiquing each other will, of course, be the essential addition to such an SR system, since today's trained but still "stupid" AI video/audio complex will flop when it comes to sustained coherence over time. Also, knowledge of what processes yield phenomenal experiences must be acquired -- although digital residents that are philosophical zombies would probably still seem to be performing fine from our "external to that reality" perspective (as if they truly did possess our private manifestations of sensory-related information and thoughts).
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