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Instant Videos Could Represent the Next Leap in A.I. Technology
Systems like the one Runway has created could, in time, replace editing skills with the press of a button. Runway’s technology generates videos from any short description.
Credit: Runway AI Inc.
Ian Sansavera, a software architect at a New York start-up called Runway AI, typed a short description of what he wanted to see in a video. "A tranquil river in the forest," he wrote.
Less than two minutes later, an experimental internet service generated a short video of a tranquil river in a forest. The river's running water glistened in the sun as it cut between trees and ferns, turned a corner and splashed gently over rocks.
Runway, which plans to open its service to a small group of testers this week, is one of several companies building artificial intelligence technology that will soon let people generate videos simply by typing several words into a box on a computer screen.
They represent the next stage in an industry race — one that includes giants like Microsoft and Google as well as much smaller start-ups — to create new kinds of artificial intelligence systems that some believe could be the next big thing in technology, as important as web browsers or the iPhone.
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