Text-to-video is the next big thing in AI. We saw a couple of weeks ago how awesome (and a bit creepy) the AI-generated Pepperoni Hugspot commercial was. Pizza Later, the person who developed that video, told us that they used a tool called Runway Gen-2 to do the moving images in that project. With its text-to-video engine, they were able to give simple prompts such as "a happy man/woman/family eating a slice of pizza in a restaurant, tv commercial," and get photo-realistic content.
I've just gotten access to the public beta of Runway Gen-2 and I'm really impressed by the realistic nature of its output. While the videos are short at just four seconds each, the quality of the imagery is impressive and it all works via sending short requests to a bot on Runway ML's Discord server.
