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Read the article and thought it was going to be about AI being used to assist in story development, unexpected plot twists, believable character dialogue, etc.

• wincy 4y ago
  If you watch Corridor Crew on YouTube (some special effects guys who I think are really on the cutting edge), they’ve got some excellent videos showing how much better the AI/ML de-aging is compared to doing it by hand. I think there’s a really good one with Luke Skywalker somewhere, but I don’t have the time to look it up.
• NateEag 4y ago
  > assist in story development, unexpected plot twists, believable character dialogue, etc. This is the sort of thing I'd expect current ML language models to be terrible at, judging from my limited exposure to them. They just shove in what's the most likely completion based on their training data. Most writing on the internet is by people with little grasp of character, believable dialogue, or compelling plot arcs (including twists). If you trained one on solely the scripts of the great films and literature of the past thousand years, maybe you'd get somewhere - or maybe it would just rehash the tropes with no understanding of what makes a great story. :shrug:
  • johnohara 4y ago
    Good points. And appreciated. But CGI de-aging doesn't work well without human involvement either. I was alluding to the need for strong collaboration between AI and writer. A properly trained AI, as you point out, with a skilled human writer to shape the arc. Credits reading: "Written and directed by <name>" with assistance from "advanced learning technology."