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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday June 12 2018, @11:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the humans-are-overrated dept.

Do we need another [HB]ollywood blockbuster? Apparently not if it is up to the future of AI:

...goal of having Benjamin [the AI] "write, direct, perform and score" this short film within 48 hours, without any human intervention...

Maybe it is not perfection yet, but it looks like reality is slowly catching up with science fiction. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/06/this-wild-ai-generated-film-is-the-next-step-in-whole-movie-puppetry

Two years ago, Ars Technica hosted the online premiere of a weird short film called Sunspring, which was mostly remarkable because its entire script was created by an AI. The film's human cast laughed at odd, computer-generated dialogue and stage direction before performing the results in particularly earnest fashion.

That film's production duo, Director Oscar Sharp and AI researcher Ross Goodwin, have returned with another AI-driven experiment that, on its face, looks decidedly worse. Blurry faces, computer-generated dialogue, and awkward scene changes fill out this year's Zone Out, a film created as an entry in the Sci-Fi-London 48-Hour Challenge—meaning, just like last time, it had to be produced in 48 hours and adhere to certain specific prompts.

The result is both awful, funny and impressive. Especially with the background knowledge that it was done by an AI in just 48 hours and limited resources. Maybe we are on the path of robotic entertainment sooner than later. You'll know who'll be the boss when you start hearing discussions for the AI's necessity for copyright ownership of the AI's creation.


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by VLM on Tuesday June 12 2018, @05:17PM (1 child)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 12 2018, @05:17PM (#692007)

    Funny you should mention Han Solo... One of my kids wanted to see the movie because of the usual peer pressure. It was about as you'd expect:

    1) The characters are watered down and weak compared to the original episode 4. You can't expect sequel number ten or so to be as groundbreakingly influential as whatever ignited the trend resulting in ten sequels. So the actors were pretty "blah". Young Solo didn't feel Solo like and you wouldn't recognize him unless you were told its him beforehand. If they named it "a hell of a special effects demo reel revolving around some rando smuggler" no one would accuse him of being Solo.

    2) A quarter billion dollars of budget gives you $249,999,994.99 of admittedly impressive special effects, $5 of coffee for the director, and 1 cent to the writers. Seriously WTF, I've written better sci fi movie plots for free in two minutes here on SN.

    3) Insert infinite formulas. Car chases, at least two. All plots must have plot twist so the romantic relationship and business relationship has to be hyper predictable. The toughest martial artist MUST always be a little girl.

    4) We're reaching near anthropomorphic animation levels of diversity stereotypes, which are rigidly mandatory making the characters rigidly predictable and boring. Only a very small, relatively boring subset of the spectrum of psychology can get a blue checkmark on twitter...

    I'm struggling some to find anything interesting from the Solo movie, something not formula based or just tired. I'd have been more impressed if they piled up a quarter billion dollars of paper money, set it on fire, and filmed it.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday June 12 2018, @09:29PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Tuesday June 12 2018, @09:29PM (#692110) Journal

    I'd have been more impressed if they piled up a quarter billion dollars of paper money, set it on fire, and filmed it.

    Yeah, The Dark Knight was pretty good for a capefilm tbh. 💰💵🔥

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