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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.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday June 12 2018, @05:28PM
You're guaranteed 1% of the population wants to see capeshit and a couple percent extra can be dragged along if there's nothing good to see, so ... capeshit, nothing but capeshit as far as the eye can see.
Superhero stuff doesn't have to suck, but the suits are risk adverse so it has to be sucky capeshit.
Superman III was bad capeshit by the definition of capeshit, and maybe not even a good movie, but it was more interesting than the average capeshit AND more interesting and entertaining than the average movie. Of course the problem is you tell a hollywood exec to be creative like Superman III and instead of getting something creative, you'll get a near line for line remake of supermanIII except the computer programmer will be working at a faintly disguised facebook and the arch villain will be a 15 year old little girl martial artist who kicks everyones butts and so on and so forth.
I kind of miss the "good old days" from a decade or two ago of computer simulated lens flare and shakey cam as the sole definitions of a quality movie.