Artificial Intelligence Goes to Hollywood (and Infiltrates the Movie Industry)
More and more machine learning applications find their way into various aspects of movie production and the acting trade
Setting the scene
In previous posts, we have explored how artificial intelligence/machine learning is increasingly being applied in science as well as in various (other) creative endeavors (part 1, part 2).
Let us now venture into the land where big budgets and creativity meet: Hollywood, Tinseltown, the magical movie land.
There, increasing budgets are closely trailed by the increased use of more and more refined CGI. Movie production decisions do not only depend on budget, but also on projected profit. Those projections are based on viewer data. Budget allocation? Data. CGI? Data.
I can already hear AI rubbing its virtual hands.
Blockbuster budgets
A-list movie production is not a cheap investment. Modern blockbuster movies regularly top 200 million dollars. If you’re someone from a production company about to make (part of) such an investment, you’ll want to make as sure as possible that the movie is going to be a hit. No one invests…
