Get ready for the next generation of AI

Is anyone else feeling dizzy? Just when the AI community was wrapping its head around the astounding progress of text-to-image systems, we're already moving on to the next frontier: text-to-video. Late last week, Meta unveiled Make-A-Video, an AI that generates five-second videos from text prompts. Built on open-source data sets, Make-A-Video lets you type in a string of words, like "A dog wearing a superhero outfit with a red cape flying through the sky," and then generates a clip that, while pretty accurate, has the aesthetics of a trippy old home video. The development is a breakthrough in generative AI that also raises some tough ethical questions.