Google's New Video-Generating AI May Be the End of Reality as We Know It

Google's got a brand new AI video generator, and it's so sophisticated that we're starting to sweat around the collar a bit. Google DeepMind describes the new model, Veo 3, as capable of delivering "best in class quality, excelling in physics, realism and prompt adherence" — and as videos posted to social media indicate, that marketing doesn't fall too far short. The caliber of the video is indeed impressive. But the real quantum leap is that the system can produce audio that goes with the clip, ranging from sound effects to music to human speech and singing. The internet was quick to riff on all those capabilities, sometimes in the very same clip. They often got pretty meta. In one clip posted to the r/Singularity subreddit, lifelike AI "actors" discuss the range of actions new model can generate. "We can talk!" one of the non-people exclaims. "No more silence!" another enthuses. As users commented on the thread, commercials and other human creations could soon be "cooked" than ... Read full article.