> Sora serves as a foundation for models that can understand and simulate the real world, a capability we believe will be an important milestone for achieving AGI.

That struck me as a line they added to drum up more funding.

For models to interact with real-world objects, they first need to understand those objects. These videos demonstrate just how advanced that awareness is. The goal is not to generate videos. Of course, they could and likely will build products on this capability, but the long-term goal is bigger.

Sure, if that's not just marketing. I haven't seen enough evidence to conclude this will go towards that kind of thing yet, but I'm open to the possibility.

That's exactly what we have now with YouTube.

How else is the next generation of talented creatives cultivated, if not out of the pool of the millions of untalented typists?

But we can already do this?

I'm not quite sure what you mean, so I'll ask for clarification. Are you saying this technology can be channeled into fighting disease and death, or that the man hours and computational freed up by this technology can be channeled?

I think that all this goodness was spent on entertainment at a time when every second a catastrophe occurs - a human dies.

Oh I see what you mean, thanks.

Yeah, this is a very real issue with a lot of Silicon Valley tech, unfortunately. They're perfecting the art of pretending everything is fine, I feel like.

Biologists, chemists, and researchers can be all automated and trained on a very big LLM that OpenAI eventually creates. Then, more cures to diseases and technological advances can be invented. This technology can soon run entire countries and emulate humanity / society.

If you assume the technology will be able to do arbitrary things in the future then sure.