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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: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday June 12 2018, @02:05PM (4 children)

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Tuesday June 12 2018, @02:05PM (#691900) Journal

    Machine generated content is often just a rehash of previously generated content deemed statistically popular. It's not good at genuine innovation; it's a remixing machine.

    So you're saying hollywood has been using AI to make movies for the past ~20 years?

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday June 12 2018, @03:48PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 12 2018, @03:48PM (#691963) Journal

    So you're saying hollywood has been using AI to make movies for the past ~20 years?

    Artificial? Yes.
    Intelligence? I have deep doubts about it... are the markedroids able of intelligence?

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday June 12 2018, @05:35PM (2 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 12 2018, @05:35PM (#692016)

    So you're saying hollywood has been using AI to make movies for the past ~20 years?

    Hows the meme go, something like "Cool it with the antisemitic remarks". The multicultural issues WRT who runs hollywood vs who's stuck watching dreck in the theaters is an issue that doesn't help produce good product. Desert people who are into kaballah golems lecturing cultural christians about what souls are WRT natural vs artificial. With a side dish of I don't think they (as in hollywood execs) eat their own dog food. God only knows what a space alien race would think after observing the situation.

    • (Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Tuesday June 12 2018, @09:33PM (1 child)

      by Osamabobama (5842) on Tuesday June 12 2018, @09:33PM (#692111)

      God only knows what a space alien race would think after observing the situation.

      So you start out implying that Jews control Hollywood and can't really connect with a Christian mainstream, but then out of nowhere you bring up Scientology. I'm sure there is meaning in there somewhere, but it must have gotten buried in symbolism.

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      • (Score: 2) by VLM on Thursday June 14 2018, @12:51PM

        by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 14 2018, @12:51PM (#692857)

        Scientology.

        Well, Tom Cruise, etc. Just saying you can't expect entertainment from an alien culture to have wide appeal, regardless of the specific alien culture. Which shows up in the viewership stats.