Yeah… IBM's Watson was sent to film school, then shown an upcoming movie about AI… and created the trailer for it.
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I have more questions. Like such as: did Watson pick the music too? A+ scene selection, but if Watson also picked the music I'm just gonna have to go ahead and be freaked the hell out kthx.
This is very cool – but I find the guy's assertion later in the explanation section a little odd.
Original thought is nessisary for creativity? Not really – most "creativity" within the Human species is actually not original, it is merely taking things others have already created and putting them together in new ways – and we already know computers are more than capable of this, sometimes even more than humans are.
I think human beings like to fool ourselves into thinking out thoughts and "creativity" are a lot more "original" than they actually are – but our biological "programming" is doubtfully any less a factor than an AI's programming would be.
+Sarah Rios No Watson didn't do the music and there was post editing to stitch it together. It did do all the scene selections and whatnot after being fed hours and hours of horror flick footage to "learn from".
+Daniel Carelli Absolutely. If you're a gamer… check out the just released (yesterday I believe – I literally just got it) The Turing Test. It discusses exactly those types of topics through a Portal style game. The puzzles are fun but there is a deeper subject matter being discussed throughout the game. I don't want to spoil it… I'm not even sure how far into it I am but I'm seeing it unfold, have a preeeetty good idea where it's heading, and it's pretty wicked. Trailer here: https://youtu.be/UHQmZn88k1E Website here: http://www.theturingtestgame.com/
I found it on Steam easy but wasn't on Amazon. I picked up the Xbox version from Microsoft's site.