Images
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Image-to-video AI workflows are cheaper and faster than direct text-to-video
“We like to work with images on the basis that it's a lot easier and cheaper and faster to generate images for the commercial than it is to do everything text to video.”
Andreessen: Tim Berners-Lee's original World Wide Web lacked inline image support
“But like, just as an example, the web, and when it was originally conceived, didn't have images.”
Doshi: Image AI is probably a couple years behind a GPT-4 moment
“Images is interesting because it's probably a couple years behind a GPT-IV true moment, right?”
Shulman: Generative audio AI lags text and images by one to two years
“So I think very roughly you can think audio is like one to two years behind images and text. And so you kind of have to think today like text was in 20, 22 or something like this.”
Chintala: Smell and touch digitization is where images were in 1920
“When we think about audio, or images, or video, they're, like, so advanced that we have the concept of color spaces, we have the concept of, like, frequency spectrums, like, you know, we figured out how ears process, like frequencies in mouse spectrum, or what…”
Shazeer: Text Is a Thousand Times More Information-Dense Than Images
“An image is worth a thousand words, but it's like a million pixels. So like the text is like a thousand times as dense.”