Tag: AI
Coca-Cola brings Old Masters to life with AI
Masterpiece follows the journey of a Coca-Cola bottle from one iconic painting to the next as it makes its way to a thirsty student in need of inspiration. The VFX team at Electric Theatre Collective and creative agency Blitzworks used a mix of live action shots, digital effects and AI to create the commercial and its complex transitions. The Coca-Cola Masterpiece campaign won’t be restricted to the two-minute commercial but will also include 3D billboards and digital collectibles. As a… Read the rest →
Kickstarting a movie treatment with ChatGPT
A tweet in my timeline early today from Joshua Conkel, a writer and director in Los Angeles, caught my eye. I want a Knives Out movie where Benoit and his husband are on a vacation together and Benoit is like, “I won’t solve any mysteries on this vacation, I promise” but then he has to solve a mystery without his husband realizing he’s doing it. Slapstick ensues. Joshua Conkel on Twitter Hot on the heels of Glass Onion: A Knives… Read the rest →
AI that will write email replies is here
Artificial intelligence is all the rage at the moment. The rise of AI tools and services to generate images and video from text prompts or by analysing other images, and engage in actual conversation with an AI chatbot, resets your belief in what such simulated intelligence can do producing highly sophisticated results compared to what you’ve experienced or known about before. It’s led to a huge wave of AI-generated content flooding the Internet and the mainstream media to the extent… Read the rest →
Who is the creator?
The photo you see above of a spectacular post-dawn red sky is the scene that confronted me early on Monday morning when I opened my front door. It took my breath away! I captured the scene with a Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4 foldable smartphone and posted the photo to Instagram. But that photo is actually not the same as the photo above. The photo here is a subsequent enhancement of the original photo, known as a “stylized photo,” automatically created… Read the rest →
Topics for FIR 263
My topics for discussion with Shel in For Immediate Release 263, our monthly long-form podcast episode for June 2022, published on June 20, 2022: Google has not created sentient AI — yet The suspension of a Google engineer called Blake Lemoine, who claimed a computer chatbot he was working on had become sentient and was thinking and reasoning like a human being, has stimulated a lot of discussion over the past week or so. […] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/12/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-blake-lemoine https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine/ https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/2022/06/dangerous-fallacy-sentient-ai https://www.wired.com/story/blake-lemoine-google-lamda-ai-bigotry/ https://bigthink.com/the-future/google-sentient-ai/… Read the rest →