Once, when waking from a nap, I was able to consciously keep my "dream eyes" open with my real eyes closed. I could vividly see images my dream was still generating, and it looked a lot like this.<p>Makes me wonder if I'm just influenced by the work happening in ML, or if we are really approaching what the brain is already doing.
People may call BS, but I do think we'll reach a point where we can generate coherent books or movies. It'll take many more neurons, but I think the possibility is out there.<p>The real question is where these "fake" pieces of art will be placed in our society.
Future prediction capability here can greatly improve video monitoring of all kinds. Run a constantly trained system like this in real time over incoming streams and let the agent observe generated predictive videos N units of time ahead.
>These videos are not real; they are hallucinated by a generative video model.<p>I'm not sure why, but the fact that they used the term "hallucinated" is a little unsettling.