i don't think people realise just how profound SORA is. If you look at the videos, it's easy to marvel at the quality of the videos, generated in response to simple Engish prompts. You look at the videos and say "Wow".
BUT... that is only half the story. In fact it's 1% of the story. What is truly mind-bending, shocking even, is that to do what it does, SORA has itself without instruction, figured out how physics works. It cannot render tiny ships floating in a cup of foaming coffee without understanding the motion of ships, without understanding that coffee is not like water and that it foams differently, without understanding depth of field to make the ships look small. It cannot create a video of a woman walking in Tokyo with understanding how fabric sways and moves, how her hangbag would swing.
It was not taught to understand these things. They just showed it lots of other videos and it's just figured it out. This is yet more, but this time much more compelling evidence, that these AI's we are creating, really do in some sense "think". The idea that e.g. GPT4 is just generating the next words in a sentence without understanding anything, is just wrong. These thinks are thinking already.
