My friend Andy Halliday sent me today's “The Daily AI Show” podcast. He and co-hosts Junmi Hatcher, Beth Lyons, and Brian Mosele pondered the question, “Will an AI movie win an Oscar in his seven years?” Andy knows that I have a particular interest in film AI. The first ten years of his career were involved in film work. In fact, I listened to the entire podcast and wrote my thoughts on this very compelling question. Could an AI movie win an Oscar in his 7 years?
Bob Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Forest Gump, Roger Rabbit) is directing a movie starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright. here, Scheduled for November 2024. Prevent actor aging using Metaphysical AI. Some scenes feature only the star's avatar. This definitely has the potential to win the Academy Award for Best Picture or Best Special Effects, which could happen in 2025. Does that count? Metaphysic is famous for its 2022 deepfake Tom Cruise TikTok video.
AI is a tool that powers special effects and animation pipelines, and the work can cost millions of dollars per minute. In most, but not all cases, AI should disappear. This will happen within seven years. As always, it takes great human filmmaking to win or be nominated for an Oscar. By using AI in conjunction with other cloud-based approaches, a producer can make a $100 million movie for $10 million. No awards for that, but it's a dramatic change.
One of the uses of AI in entertainment may be the most artistically appealing. It's a movie created or hallucinated by an AI based on prompts. This means that he is just a person, and he is hardly “making” or encouraging the film. This could become a genre. Imagine a channel showing Sora or other AI-imagined movies, or his YouTube channel, with very limited human intervention. The first time I saw synthetic media was at SXSW, where “The Golden Key” won in the immersive category (but not in the other categories). You could watch hours of movies made using Stable Video in real time. Viewers can choose which actors they prefer in synthetic entertainment, or even have their own avatar “star” on the show.
Finally, from an awards perspective, I think it will take a decade, maybe even more, for the Academy to accept this new genre of synthetic media (who knows what it will be called) as legitimate. is expected. As the committee notes, the MP Academy is a lifetime membership. The final vote is made by members whose average age is 65 years or older. Audiences will have to show they really want this, but it will still be decades before Academy voters consider synthetic actors, directors, composers, editors, etc. It's almost 7 years.
Personally, I haven't seen anything that suggests scripts will be “written” by AI. Instead, skilled writers use it as a co-pilot, an invisible tool. Professional writers in journalism, academia, media and business are using his AI, but it is invisible. It's just a tool to make the process go faster.
While studios are paying lip service to AI (“AI! Of course we're working on it”), they have too much to lose by using AI before legal and copyright issues are resolved. Also, these are union shops and are inherently resistant to AI, so introducing AI will require a lot of friction. Maybe a studio will buy Metaphysics in 10 years.
Finally, in closing the “Daily AI Show,” Halliday pointed out that AI will be used in the entertainment industry in ways unrelated to awards. For example, AI will be used in marketing. The discovery engine, the recommendation engine used by streaming services, is a powerful machine learning algorithm. Of course, there are many definitions for calling this ML app AI.