Google Does End User AI Experiences Amazingly Well Again

If you are a Google workspace user, as many nonprofits are, you may have been recently prompted to try their video creation tool within workspace.  I tried it out and was super impressed in its usability and usefulness.

I prompted the tool to make a video referencing the blog I wrote saved as a Google Document within my Google Drive.  Within a couple minutes, the tool created a fully editable 2:30 minute video in slide deck presentation format.  Each segment can be edited by hand or further prompted with the AI to create new mini-videos segments and imagery within the video. For this demonstration I edited one segment to test, but the rest of the video is directly from the AI first run.  

Like NotebookLM users see more immediate business, mission, and educational value from Google's video creator than tools like Sora from OpenAI.  

As a comparison, I asked to Sora to create a brief video on a similar blog. I specifically asked for an African American avatar in order to do some further testing when I don't specify.  Sora only gives you 10 seconds and contains no sound.  The aesthetics are nice, but the usefulness to the average user?  Its not there yet. Oh and the nonsense text on the background is very similar to what you often see in their image creator DALL-E. 

Check out both videos below:

Sora created video