James Kynge

playing around with Sea Dance 2.0.

It is just mind-blowing.

I mean, I think people who live in Silicon Valley and Hollywood and Los Angeles, San Francisco, all of those places, they know about this already.

But I think a lot of the world...

has not yet really cottoned on to how good this technology has become.

And, you know, Seedance 2.0, which is an app created by ByteDance, which is the Chinese company that controls TikTok as well, is one of the leaders, but there are others as well.

Google DeepMind has got an app that's equally impressive, I would say.

I was playing around with that too.

Basically, C-Dance 2.0 can generate cinema-quality video complete with sound effects and dialogue, and it can do so just after you give it a few written prompts.

So you would tell it, I want a video of, in the example you gave, Brad Pitt fighting Tom Cruise.

I want it to look realistic.

I want it to look a little bit like X film or Y film that you remember or hazily remember.

Yeah.

And then it does it for you.

I was also watching videos of waves crashing onto a little boy on a pier.

I can't remember what film that reminds me of, but I'm pretty sure that's another echo from a famous film.

And again, it was incredibly lifelike.

So...

It seems to me, Alice, we're living in a world now where these binary questions are coming thick and fast.

You know, like you said in your intro, Hollywood is in a panic about this.