Only a few months after his , Ashton Kutcher has found a new tech bubble to enter too late. Kutcher is the latest Hollywood star to shill for the increasingly desperate AI industry. Speaking with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt at the Berggruen Salon in Los Angeles [ ], Kutcher praised OpenAI’s latest money pit, Sora, which Kutcher got a beta version of and thinks is “pretty amazing” at generating video.
Kutcher, whose most recent projects include the memorable rom-com, — —and , is shocked by how quickly one can “create good 10, 15-second videos that look real.” It’s a little more complicated than that. In April, OpenAI released a one-minute, 20-second short film called about a man with a balloon for a head.
To be clear, it sucks, and its biggest claim to fame is being the rare AI video where a humanoid only has five fingers. More importantly, generating a small amount of video takes a very long time. , Sora takes about 10 to 20 minutes to develop a 3 to 20-second shot, and the user will have no idea what it’s going to produce.
They don’t know if the AI will hallucinate or return something that looks bad or, as Zitron points out, has inconsistent balloon-head sizes. But far be it from Kutcher to heap blind praise on a computer program that could probably generate a movie only slightly worse than one starring Kutcher. The actor admits the software “still makes mistakes” and “doesn’t quite understand physics.
” Thankfully, physics aren’t a make-or-.
