[ExI] A short movie I created (with the help of AI)

[spike at rainier66.com]

...> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] A short movie I created (with the help of AI)

>... spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>>... Hollywood’s days are not just numbered, they are finished.

>...Now, now.  Even if the Singularity were to happen tomorrow, that's still tomorrow, and we'd still have to make it through today.
Hollywood will continue for a good long time, I suspect, and incorporate over time - rather than be replaced by - AI.

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Adrian we saw what Jason did with a thousand bucks, software, a good story and one week.  Hollywood devours millions, sometimes hundreds of millions, and yet their products typically are not compelling.  Most of the money goes to elaborate sets and prima dona actors.  Jason demonstrated that those expensive elements are not necessary, but furthermore Jason's work demonstrates a format which I consider critically important: shorter stories.

Hollywood products used to be about 2 hours, but now they are typically about an hour and a half (I think (I am no expert on recent Hollywood products.))  But in the internet age, notice how remarkably short our attention span has become, and how much more quickly we can take in information.  While we programmed computers, computers programmed us.

Experiment: play any recent movie on your TV in a dark room with the sound muted and your chair turned away.  Notice the reflected light on the walls: flash flash change change, every 3 to 5 seconds it seems.  Now repeat the experiment with a movie made 70 years ago, a masterpiece such as Casablanca.  The reflection on the wall is a steady glow for a minute or two at a time.  To get Casablanca, one must listen to the dialog and concentrate.  Another good example: the Perry Mason dramas.  Moderns don't get those because they require too much sustained concentration, a skill seldom called upon in our modern world.  We are adapted for speed.

Hollywood must adapt too.  It needs to create stories which run 20 to 30 minutes, forget the model of bringing people together into a large room (diseases spread that way) and focus instead on making their stories better, faster, cheaper, and available to view in our own homes on our own video equipment.  Sell the products directly, the way the rock stars sell their recordings and videos.

The ones who likely are most threatened are not the Hollywood producers and writers so much as the actors.  The AI generated characters work well, they never age, they never show up stoned, they don't get into contract disputes.  They are the directors' dream.

spike