{"id":39663,"date":"2024-02-17T02:50:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T21:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=39663"},"modified":"2025-04-24T18:11:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T12:41:34","slug":"open-ai-sora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/open-ai-sora\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI launches Sora"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Why in news?<\/li>\n<li>What is OpenAI?<\/li>\n<li>What is ChatGPT?<\/li>\n<li>What is OpenAI Sora?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why in news?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>OpenAI, the creator of the ChatGPT, has unveiled a new generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) model that can convert a text prompt into video.\n<ul>\n<li>GenAI is a type of artificial intelligence that uses machine learning to create new content based on user prompts.<\/li>\n<li>GenAI models learn patterns and structure from training data, and then use that information to generate new data with similar characteristics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The model, called Sora, can generate videos up to a minute long while maintaining visual quality and adherence to the user\u2019s prompt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>OpenAI<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Start\n<ul>\n<li>OpenAI was set up in December 2015 as a non-profit AI research organisation whose goal was to develop \u201cartificial general intelligence,\u201d or AGI.\n<ul>\n<li>AGI is essentially software that is as smart as humans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The organisation said it wanted to <u>ensure that AGI benefits all of humanity<\/u> and no big tech company, like Google, would master the technology and monopolise its benefits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Founding members\n<ul>\n<li>Among its founding members were Altman, Brockman, Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn, Amazon Web Services, Infosys, right-wing tech billionaire Peter Thiel and Elon Musk.<\/li>\n<li>They collectively pledged a whopping $ 1 billion to the venture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The evolution\n<ul>\n<li>Around two years after its inception, OpenAI released a report titled \u2018Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-Training.\u2019<\/li>\n<li>This introduced the idea of Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs).\n<ul>\n<li>GPTs are a type of <u>large language model (LLM)<\/u> that use transformer neural networks to generate human-like text.<\/li>\n<li>GPTs are trained on large amounts of unlabelled text data from the internet, enabling them to understand and generate coherent and contextually relevant text.<\/li>\n<li>They can be fine-tuned for specific tasks like: Language generation, Sentiment analysis, Language modelling, Machine translation, Text classification.<\/li>\n<li>GPTs use self-attention mechanisms to focus on different parts of the input text during each processing step.<\/li>\n<li>This allows GPT models to capture more context and improve performance on natural language processing (NLP) tasks.\n<ul>\n<li>NLP is the ability of a computer program to understand human language as it is spoken and written &#8212; referred to as natural language.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>ChatGPT<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>ChatGPT is a state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) model developed by OpenAI.<\/li>\n<li>It is <u>a variant of the popular GPT-3 (Generative Pertained Transformer 3) model<\/u>, which has been trained on a massive amount of text data to generate human-like responses to a given input.<\/li>\n<li>The answers provided by this chatbot are intended to be technical and free of jargon.<\/li>\n<li>It can provide responses that sound like human speech, enabling natural dialogue between the user and the virtual assistant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>OpenAI Sora<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>About\n<ul>\n<li>Sora is an AI model developed by OpenAI \u2013\u2013 built on past research in DALL\u00b7E and GPT models \u2013\u2013 and can generate <u>videos based on text instructions<\/u>.\n<ul>\n<li>DALL-E is a <u>text-to-image model developed by OpenAI <\/u>(introduced in January 2021) that creates digital images from natural language descriptions.<\/li>\n<li>DALL\u00b7E can generate imagery in multiple styles, including photorealistic imagery, paintings, and emoji.<\/li>\n<li>It can also manipulate and rearrange objects in its images, and can correctly place design elements in novel compositions without explicit instruction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It can also animate a static image, transforming it into a dynamic video presentation.<\/li>\n<li>Sora can create full videos in one go or add more to already created videos to make them longer.<\/li>\n<li>It can produce videos up to one minute in duration, ensuring high visual quality and accuracy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Features\n<ul>\n<li>Sora can generate complex scenes with various characters, precise actions, and detailed backgrounds.<\/li>\n<li><u>Not only does the model understand the user&#8217;s instructions, but it also interprets how these elements would appear in real-life situations<\/u>.<\/li>\n<li>It is capable of generating compelling characters that express vibrant emotions.<\/li>\n<li>Sora can also create multiple shots within a single generated video that accurately persist characters and visual style.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Shortcomings of the model\n<ul>\n<li>OpenAI says that the current model of Sora has weaknesses.<\/li>\n<li>It may struggle with accurately simulating the physics of a complex scene, and may not understand specific instances of cause and effect.\n<ul>\n<li>For example, a person might take a bite out of a cookie, but afterward, the cookie may not have a bite mark.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is DALL\u00b7E?<\/h3>\n<p>DALL\u00b7E is a text-to-image model developed by OpenAI (introduced in January 2021) that creates digital images from natural language descriptions. DALL\u00b7E can generate imagery in multiple styles, including photorealistic imagery, paintings, and emoji.<\/p>\n<h3>Q2) What is Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs)?<\/h3>\n<p>GPTs are a type of large language model (LLM) that use transformer neural networks to generate human-like text. GPTs are trained on large amounts of unlabelled text data from the internet, enabling them to understand and generate coherent and contextually relevant text. They can be fine-tuned for specific tasks like: Language generation, Sentiment analysis, Language modelling, Machine translation, Text classification.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/technology\/features\/story\/openai-sora-creates-videos-what-is-it-how-you-can-use-it-is-it-available-and-other-questions-answered-2503190-2024-02-16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>OpenAI Sora creates videos: What is it, how you can use it, is it available and other questions answered<\/u><\/a><u> | <\/u><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-sci-tech\/openai-sora-videos-text-prompt-9164790\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Indian Express<\/u><\/a><u> | <\/u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techtarget.com\/searchenterpriseai\/definition\/Dall-E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Techtarget<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sora is an AI model that can generate videos based on text instructions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":39664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}