Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a field of computer science that focuses on building machines that copy human intelligence through a set of algorithms. Its arrival promises to change nearly all aspects of the world and improve things like never before. Now, the world sees AI art, which refers to art generated with the help of AI algorithms.
Aside from AI art, machine learning can now also be used to create new scripts or write synopsis and characters for movies. Some filmmakers use AI to analyze individual scripts that will be produced in a movie. The only question is how much will it cost to take over filmmaking and screenwriting.
Making AI-Generated Movies
German tech entrepreneur Fabian Stelzer told PC Magazine that he is working to create an almost entirely AI-generated movie titled Salt. Stelzer is using online image-generating software, such as DALL-E 2, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion as well as voice-generators like Murf, to build his science fiction movie.
Stelzer does this by giving text prompts to these AI programs; these programs build images and voices to create a narrative. According to an article in Giant Freakin Robot, the concept is similar to a "Choose Your Own Adventure" story, except that it employs AI and not ghostwriters to create imagery that feeds to human imagination.
In a video posted on Twitter, Salt appears to take visual cues from lo-fi science fiction films from the 1970s, such as Silent Running and Dark Star, and also shows some vibes of Ridley Scott's Alien. The AI-generated footage shows that Salt seems to be entered by a group of space explorers discovering a planet with overwhelming lodes of salt. There are also flashes of spacecraft floating in orbit, and other spooky stuff.
Today, AI in filmmaking is used to make Salt work on still images and does not exactly qualify for a "motion picture" definition. But some previous science fiction who also took advantage of the still image before seems to not detract from a conventional movie. Stelzer told PC Magazine that the experiment was part of a movement in AU that rivals the development of photography.
Future of AI-Generated Movies
The 2016 sci-fi movie Sunspring by Oscar Sharp is an AI-generated short film in Sci-Fi London's 48-hour film-making competition in the same year. It was written and produced by AI within 48 hours, adhering to specific guidelines.
According to Medium, Sharp fed a few hundred sci-fi screenplays into a long short-term memory neural network with mostly '80s and '90s films in it then told to write his own film.
Then in 2018, Oscar-winning director Kevin MacDonald directed a one-minute advertisement for Lexus entirely written by an AI, which has been trained for 15 years' worth of luxury ads.
One of the growing AI today that uses text prompts is Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3). It is an autoregressive language model that uses deep learning and was trained to hundreds of billions of words. It can write articles, song lyrics, poetry, and many others that make other people think it was written by humans.
Taking a clue from GPT-3, it is safe to assume a future scenario of AI-generated movies that could be personally custom-built for individual viewers when required.
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