OpenAI CEO Sam Altman receives a unique request to create a video showcasing a completed Ejipura flyover in Bengaluru utilising the advanced capabilities of the AI tool, Sora
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, sparked widespread interest when he extended an invitation to users to submit prompts for text-to-video transformations using the innovative tool, Sora. The testing phase of this groundbreaking technology captured significant attention, particularly on the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter). Amidst the plethora of requests flooding in, one particularly popular handle, “Peak Bengaluru,” seized the opportunity to request Altman’s assistance in completing an under-construction flyover at Ejipura using Sora. This specific prompt quickly gained traction and generated considerable excitement within the online community.
The tool, Sora, is not currently accessible to the public, and OpenAI has provided minimal details about its development. OpenAI has not disclosed information regarding the construction of Sora, including the imagery and video sources used for its training. Notably, the company has faced legal challenges from authors and The New York Times regarding the use of copyrighted written works to train ChatGPT, further contributing to the limited information available about the tool’s development and training data.
Sora is a video generating AI tool which generates videos from texts up to 60 seconds. After the announcement of this new AI tool was made on OpenAI’s X account, Sam Altman told users to tell them a video they want to generate from AI and Sora will do it for them, “we’d like to show you what sora can do, please reply with captions for videos you’d like to see and we’ll start making some!”
Among the numerous requests, the popular handle “Peak Bengaluru,” known for its posts on the city’s experiences, submitted a particularly distinctive request to Sam Altman. They said, “Fully completed Ejipura flyover with vehicle movement.” Ejipura flyover, situated near the Koramangala locality, has earned the nickname “Bangalore Stonehenge” from users on Google Maps due to its incomplete state over the past seven years.
Fully completed Ejipura flyover with vehicle movement
— Pink Bengaluru 🌸 (@peakbengaluru) February 16, 2024
Following this, a surge of users responded to Sam Altman’s post with various Bengaluru-themed ideas, indicating a heightened interest and engagement from the community on the topic.
The Ejipura flyover, once completed, is expected to establish a crucial link between Ejipura and Madiwala, with the aim of alleviating traffic congestion and enhancing overall connectivity in the area. The project, which began in 2017, holds the promise of improving transportation infrastructure and facilitating smoother movement between these locations.
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In a blog post, OpenAI has conveyed its approach of engaging with a diverse range of stakeholders, including artists, policymakers, and other individuals, as part of the process before making the new tool publicly available.
“We are working with red teamers — domain experts in areas like misinformation, hateful content, and bias — who will be adversarially testing the model,” the company said. “We’re also building tools to help detect misleading content such as a detection classifier that can tell when a video was generated by Sora.”
