AI Video Generation, Editing And Analysis Will Eat Our World

Don’t look now, but new AI models with video gen-editing-and-review power are going to make NotebookLM look like cooked cabbage.

What do I mean? Well, summer before last, the uncanny ability of Notebook to generate two podcaster voices talking about things was showing off how new versions of the Turing test provoke uncomfortable responses as humans become less able to distinguish between human and non-human interactions.

I think that new video tools are going to break this whole thing open again.

Basically, the breaking news is that, with models like Opus 5.5 and GPT Astra 6, AI is able to create long-form video intelligently, as a team of human producers would do, complete with cutting, clipping, consistent sound, and everything else you would expect of a “real video team.”

What does this mean? A lot. I listened to the episode of AI Daily Brief where Nathaniel Whittemore went over some of the criteria and use cases of what he calls “agentic video,” video made and interpreted by non-human entities.

He ticked off some of the new capabilities: the ability to “watch or approximate watching” a video, or, in other words, to know what’s in it, to bring out highlights, and evaluate the whole and its parts.

Then there’s the sound. Sound is an all-important component of video, so these new models will use it to cross the uncanny valley.

Your Digital Twin

And then there’s digital twinning, where the video avatar of a user might just be the best new example of what we’re going to be putting up with. If I can send my friend or neighbor a real live animation of “me” saying some stuff to them, why put on my bathrobe and shuffle out to the door, or pick up the telephone, or meet for coffee? Just have the avatar do it.

It may be that, in these vicarious forms, we will all be heard and seen a lot more.

But to me, a whole other set of use cases have to do with creative output.

Get Their Attention

But there was another one of his use cases that I want to claim, and use.