There’s a new player in town in the virtual realm of AI-fuelled video creation. Meet Dream Machine, a tool being developed by Luma AI, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup. The tool is already causing quite a stir among those following AI-generated video-making due to the company’s claims that its tool goes ‘beyond copying a human creative process, and layers creative, human-like styles onto the output.’ It’s the latest entrant into a field that’s been dominated recently by similar creations involving artificial intelligence, such as OpenAI’s Sora. The field of AI-fuelled imagery generation has witnessed an explosion in recent years as individual AI models and teams begin to integrate the various components into larger beliefs about the nature of intelligence. But it’s Dream Machine that’s creating quite the buzz. The tool, which is still being developed, uses information about subjects in an image to generate ‘light, texture, depth, and mood’ and promises something more than Sora – capable, as Luma AI writes, of ‘mimicking the style of human creators’. It’s inspiring to see a tool created to help realise the images in our mind’s eye.
Before describing Dream Machine’s dream-inducing capabilities, it is significant that the company made sure to make it accessible by allowing people to log in using their Google accounts. So Dream Machine is trying to make even its most experimental design work for as many people as possible, and that is ultimately a good thing. The future of content-creation is upon us and it’s an exciting thing that it is carried out so democratically.
It’s the cerebral surrealist party trick that sets Dream Machine apart: the program breathes life into still images in the form of moving portraits that animation fans will find familiar – you know, like the moving paintings in the Harry Potter books. The beta version has been applauded for its ‘free, fluid motion’ and ‘coherent storytelling’, turning requested objects, characters, actions and environments into ‘stunning images’. Luma AI wants to build a ‘universal imagination engine’ with its system Can’t you already feel the shackles of your imagination breaking?
Despite the inevitable comparison to OpenAI’s Sora, Dream Machine is carving out its own space. While Sora has been a model of the field, the Dream Machine team are intent on pushing it forward. ‘If Sora is to be the Model T, then Dream Machine will be the GTO,’ said Nesvold. ‘Sora has been a grassroots effort. In our case, we brought global knowledge to craft an even better experience and offer it in a more open-access format.’ This openness has the potential to make tools such as GPT-2 available to a much larger community of enthusiasts, and serve as a platform for a much wider variety of artistic and creative outputs.
Curious about the limits of the Dream Machine? Signing up is easy. Go to the Luma Labs website and sign in with your Google account. Luma AI has scaled up capacity post-launch so much that new users can create 10 free video generations per day. The generous supply is a nod to the company’s mission of fostering creative experimentation.
Whether you’re breathing life into a brushstroke or composing your own feature-length film, with Dream Machine you have a bold, beautiful, and blank canvas to work with. The ability for AI tools and approaches to scale from simple storyboarding tasks to the support of character development, video and even full-length films are a testament to true creative disruption.
At the dawn of a new era of generative AI, Dream Machine is a sign of what’s to come: not merely as the first consumer-facing AI video tool, but one that links directly to your Google account and, little by little, reshapes the ecosystem of our digital lives. Luma Co-founders Sara Hill and Ricky Tuohey have teamed up with Google users in a multi-year, world-spanning exploration: and that, more than anything else, is what Dream Machine is about.
While Luma AI will forego subscription fees to keep Dream Machine open, it does plan to eventually release a developer-friendly application programming interface (API), allowing a wide range of tool-makers to provide a ‘Dream Machine for the masses.’
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Dream Machine would not be possible without the tools and resources provided by Google. Many of the teams have been using Google platforms that simplify their day-to-day operations, and which encourage the creation of increasingly ambitious AI projects – making feats such as Dream Machine possible. These ‘sticky’ platforms not only make new AI-related pursuits possible, they democratise them. Anyone with sufficient passion and will can follow in the footsteps of a pioneer and start a trend of their own. Google is playing a major role in facilitating the rise of AI. And the result is that it will become increasingly possible for creatives to push the limits of AI technology in ways that dazzle and confound us.
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