Seriously. It’s been barely a year since DALL-E was an eye-rolling pun with people going ‘ha ha avocado chair, that’s cute.’ Now you can ask Bing what it’d look like for Kobe Bryant to dunk on Wilt Chamberlain using St. Peter’s halo as the hoop, and it’ll return some buck-wild airbrushed illustration that belongs on a plastic school binder.
Is an infinite supply of Mad Magazine fold-ins an economy unto themselves? Nope. But right now, to-day, you can probably string together some models, feed in the Wikipedia description of a movie, and get out a mutated mess of frames vaguely approximating a dramatic trailer for a film that does not exist. A remake hallucinated by a few gigabytes of linear algebra, based on a plain-English summary of events.
When that goes from ‘ha ha pizza commercial’ to animating lost episodes of Doctor Who, that’s gonna be a big deal for Hollywood, in much the same way that refrigeration was a big deal for ice importers. The tech won’t happen immediately and the results won’t improve smoothly. It will catch most people by surprise… again. Especially the suits pouring money in and watching it take shape.
Their cost-benefit analysis includes firing the people who create stuff because any idiot can direct the machines. They cannot imagine how many idiots with machines are out there, and how much better fired creators will use them.
Seriously. It’s been barely a year since DALL-E was an eye-rolling pun with people going ‘ha ha avocado chair, that’s cute.’ Now you can ask Bing what it’d look like for Kobe Bryant to dunk on Wilt Chamberlain using St. Peter’s halo as the hoop, and it’ll return some buck-wild airbrushed illustration that belongs on a plastic school binder.
Is an infinite supply of Mad Magazine fold-ins an economy unto themselves? Nope. But right now, to-day, you can probably string together some models, feed in the Wikipedia description of a movie, and get out a mutated mess of frames vaguely approximating a dramatic trailer for a film that does not exist. A remake hallucinated by a few gigabytes of linear algebra, based on a plain-English summary of events.
When that goes from ‘ha ha pizza commercial’ to animating lost episodes of Doctor Who, that’s gonna be a big deal for Hollywood, in much the same way that refrigeration was a big deal for ice importers. The tech won’t happen immediately and the results won’t improve smoothly. It will catch most people by surprise… again. Especially the suits pouring money in and watching it take shape.
Their cost-benefit analysis includes firing the people who create stuff because any idiot can direct the machines. They cannot imagine how many idiots with machines are out there, and how much better fired creators will use them.