“On Friday, the tech giant Meta unveiled a set of A.I. tools, called Meta Movie Gen, for automatically generating videos, instantly editing them and synchronizing them with A.I.-generated sound effects, ambient noise and background music…

Given a short text description of an image, one tool creates a video. Then, given another description of some sounds, a second tool adds the audio.

A demonstration included short videos — created in minutes — of a man in a poncho standing over a waterfall, a snake slithering through a forest and a person riding an all-terrain vehicle across the desert. Each included music as well as sound effects.

The new system also let people upload photos of themselves and instantly weave these images to moving videos.”

From New York Times.