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Space environment, ready for comp of your characters.3D rendering. Generative AI

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Author
Gary Varner
Date
May 27, 2023

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Science Fiction

Tagged
AI, Arts and Culture, film, Movies and TV, Sci-Fi Saturday}

Guardians of the Galaxy 3 Review, Part 1

_{It's a decent movie, but the tone doesn't account for all these characters have been through} _{Gary Varner

May 27, 2023

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Arts & Culture, Science Fiction}

Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 came out in theaters on May 5th, and while the movie is not the best addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it’s better than most, certainly better than Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. However, there have been complaints about theater turnout, and these complaints are a testament to the damage movies like Multiverse of Madness have done to the Marvel brand. I’d say we have the Mouse to thank for that. The only consolation to this turn of events is that as the box office numbers for Marvel films continue to dwindle, so do the subscriptions to Disney Plus. I’ll take the victories where I can get them. The Movie’s Tone Needs Read More ›

emotional glitchy tetris pattern pixelated Photoluminescence SciFi Otherworldly Realistic

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Author
News
Date
May 26, 2023

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Technology

Tagged
Acton Institute, AI, Apple TV, capitalism, Communism, Digital Addiction, film, Mind Matters podcast, Movies and TV, Robert J. Marks, social media, Tetris}

Before the iPhone, There Was Tetris

_{What was the precursor for the widespread tech addiction we see today, particularly in young people?} _{News

May 26, 2023

2

Arts & Culture, Technology}

What was the precursor for the widespread tech addiction we see today, particularly in young people? Many say it was the iPhone. Peter Tonguette, however, thinks that the game Tetris started the screentime avalanche. Tonguette reviewed the new Apple TV+ film Tetris, which covers the story of the classic game’s development, acquisition, and subsequent popularity in the early nineties. He writes, One might assume this changeover coincided with the rise of smartphones and social media, but a new movie shows that it happened as early as the summer vacation of 1989. During that fateful interregnum between school years, kids were introduced to something that prefigured the electronic devices of the 21st century: a battery-powered, 8-bit handheld videogame device whose two Read More ›

schreibmaschine alt jahrgang retro schriftsteller

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Author
Peter Biles
Date
May 25, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

Tagged
AI, Alissa Wilkinson, film, Futurism, Movies and TV, NPR, Strike, Unions, Vox, Writers Guild of America, Writing}

Hollywood Writers vs. AI

_{The Writers Guild of America doesn't want AI stealing their jobs} _{Peter Biles

May 25, 2023

3

Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

I smell something rotten in the heart of Hollywood. So do a lot of screenwriters, actors, and directors. And you probably already have seen the headlines about the Writers Guild of America (WGA) going on strike, largely due to Hollywood studios’ apparent openness to using AI to generate scripts. It feels inevitable looking back, with the introduction and consequent explosion of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, that we would quickly arrive at a place where people like screenwriters are demanding job security. New AI systems have challenged a lot of different sectors, from visual art to journalism, but right now, the WGA strike is at the forefront of the conversation and continues to rage. Maggie Harrison of Futurism reports that a good many Read More ›

Manhattan project, development of nuclear weapons, history of science of the 20th century. Art collage with a nuclear explosion

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Author
Peter Biles
Date
May 20, 2023

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Technology

Tagged
Atomic bomb, film, Movies and TV, Oppenheimer, Technology, World War II}

“I Can Perform This Miracle”

_{The new "Oppenheimer" trailer gives a chilling hint of the atom bomb race} _{Peter Biles

May 20, 2023

1

Arts & Culture, Technology}

Christopher Nolan, director of The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, and Interstellar, is breaking ground in the historical film genre with his upcoming film Oppenheimer starring Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, and Emily Blunt. The film, currently slated for release in July, has a chilling new trailer that gives a larger sense of the movie’s scope, and the profound moral dilemma at the heart of the creation of the atomic bomb. J. Robert Oppenheimer was the theoretical physicist largely responsible for the develop of the bomb in World War II. The new trailer emphasizes the United States’ fierce “arms race” with Germany. In the trailer, Oppenheimer says, “We’re in a race against the Nazis. And I know what it means Read More ›

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Author
Gary Varner
Date
April 22, 2023

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Science Fiction

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, film, Her, hollywood, Movies, romance, Technology, television}

Her, Part Two

_{What happens when you’re dating the AI secretary} _{Gary Varner

April 22, 2023

6

Arts & Culture, Science Fiction}

Last time, we began talking about the movie Her, a story of a man falling in love with his AI and compared it to the abysmal season three of the Orville. Unlike the Orville, which insisted that the viewer take the romance between the robot and the human seriously, Her treats the subject as a what-if scenario, playing the whole situation straight and letting the viewer draw their own conclusions. Theodore had just finished uploading the AI onto his computer, which called itself Samantha, and was impressed by how human-like the operating system seemed. Samantha begins organizing Theodore’s computer and helping him around the office, but it doesn’t take long for a romantic relationship to develop between them. When Theodore Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
January 19, 2023

Categorized
Arts & Culture

Tagged
Arts, Avatar, Colonialism, David Brooks, film, James Cameron, Moviegoing, Movies, New York Times, Science fiction, Spider-Man}

Avatar 2 Surpasses Spider-Man at the Box Office

_{The long-awaited sequel proved the skeptics wrong and scored big at the movie theaters} _{News

January 19, 2023

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Arts & Culture}

James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water, surpassed Spider-Man: No Way Home in box office records and now stands at No. 6 of all time highest grossing films. The sci-fi visual wonder is the sequel to the first Avatar installment, which was released in December 2009. Critics doubted whether the franchise could rebound in popularity after a 13 year absence in the movie theaters, atop further concerns about the relevance and viability of moviegoing in the “pandemic era.” The doubters were quelled by the success of Spider-Man: No Way Home, and with Cameron’s blockbuster success, might be silenced for good. Despite ever increasing streaming options, such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, and Peacock, people still seem interested in Read More ›

Retro wave, 80s. Old tv with antenna with neon light. Top view, minimalism

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Author
Jonathan Bartlett
Date
October 17, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Media

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, film, media, Reality, TV shows}

The Graying of the Art — and AI — World

_{Why is so much modern media made up of rehashes and remakes?} _{Jonathan Bartlett

October 17, 2022

3

Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Media}

The world of popular art (TV, movies, etc.) has a problem. I would even go as far as to label it a crisis. The problem is that the art world is becoming increasingly derivative. There are some points where it is obviously derivative—every movie is a remake, and every TV show is a reboot. We are getting the same stories regurgitated instead of novelty. However, there are also more subtle ways that this is happening. TV comedies work largely by including inside jokes from previous TV shows. One of the most popular writers of the 20th century was Louis L’Amour. What I think made L’Amour’s stories so great is that he could draw from a vast amount of personal experience. He could write about a lot Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles
Date
September 20, 2022

Categorized
Arts & Culture

Tagged
Animation (science fiction benefits), Artificial Intelligence, censorship, Creativity, Deepfakes and revised history, film, Story, the past}

HBO Max Cuts Cigarette from Iconic Movie Poster

_{Modern tech gives entertainment companies the power to “retro-edit” material. How far could it go?} _{Peter Biles

September 20, 2022

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Arts & Culture}

Last week, HBO Max, the Warner Bros.-owned TV streaming platform, cut more than just their costs — they’re cutting back on cigarettes too. Disneyland used to Photoshop out cigarettes in portraits of Walt Disney: https://t.co/7n3oBWzMI7 pic.twitter.com/zP58u8xBG5 — PetaPixel (@petapixel) October 12, 2016 Keen observers noticed that HBO Max removed the cigarillo from the iconic movie poster from “McCabe & Mrs. Miller.” Now, McCabe is awkwardly holding up two fingers with no smoking device in hand. They also scrubbed cigarettes from several other film posters, including “The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean,” “There Was a Crooked Man,” “Fallen Angels,” and “The Man Who Knew Too Much.” HBO hasn’t yet disclosed its reasoning for the cuts. Maybe they thought people Read More ›

Scene clapperboard in front of two actors

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
December 31, 2018

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Machine Learning

Tagged
2018 AI Hype, AI-written scripts, film, Literature, Machine Learning, novels}

2: AI Can Write Novels and Screenplays Better than the Pros!

_{AI help, not hype: Software can automatically generate word sequences based on material fed in from existing scripts. But with what result?} _{Robert J. Marks

December 31, 2018

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Arts & Culture, Machine Learning}

“AI rites reel gud!” Seriously, the idea is not new. Back in the 1940s, George Orwell (1903–1950) thought that a machine could write popular novels so long as no creative thinking was involved. Thus, in his 1984 police state world, one of the central characters has a job minding a machine that mass produces them. In the 1960s, some film experiments were done along these lines, using Westerns (cowboy stories). At the time, there were masses of formula-based film material to work with in this popular genre. But what does the product look and sound like? In 2016, Ars Technica was proud to sponsor “the first AI-written sci-fi script:” As explained in The Guardian, a recurrent neural network “was fed the Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
August 16, 2018

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

Tagged
Douglas T.Ross, expert systems, film, human uniqueness, hype, Natural Intelligence, screenwriting}

Screenwriters’ Jobs Are Not Threatened by AI

_{Unless the public starts preferring mishmash to creativity} _{Robert J. Marks

August 16, 2018

7

Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

An AI-generated film is not an altogether new idea. Rule-based expert systems were used to write short plays over a half century ago, in the early 1960's. Then, as now, don’t expect creativity. That is not what AI does.