On the latest episode of the Alan Smithee Round Table, regular hosts Scott Simmons, Katie Hinsen and Michael Kammes are back to talk about Open AI’s shock decision to discontinue Sora just weeks after Disney’s multi-billion-dollar investment, Apple’s recent acquisition of Motion VFX, the soaring prices and scarcity of SSD drives and more.
Opening with a commentary on the soaring prices and scarcity of SSD drives, the crew discuss personal anecdotes and market insights from Key Code Media about extended lead times and supply chain challenges impacting hardware access. This leads into a bigger discussion about professional hardware, notably Apple’s discontinuation of the Mac Pro PCIe expansion slots.
The three also detail what happened with OpenAI’s decision to discontinue Sora by analyzing the financial and strategic reasons behind this pivot. Those reasons are partly why they’re enamored with innovative grassroots AI projects like the open-source green screen removal tool Corridor Key, and AI-driven voice cloning applications integrated into editing software, revealing a growing democratization of AI-powered creative utilities.
One Cool Thing:
Katie: Multimedia from Wagner to Virtual Reality (Randall Packer and Ken Jordan) https://www.amazon.com/Multimedia-Wagner-Virtual-Reality-Expanded/dp/0393323757
https://archive.org/details/multimediafromwa00kenj
Michael: https://voicebox.sh/ and https://github.com/nikopueringer/CorridorKey
Scott: https://www.careportal.org/