20 years ago, the entertainment industry is dominated by a handful of studios and single broadcasting company, this is an almost impossible to enter the market.
Today, the industry is almost entirely non-materialistic, and the storytelling and the surge in the number of media storytelling. This is just the beginning.
Netflix almost overnight subvert the entertainment industry, from the 2010 market value of $ 8.0 billion, to a record of just eight years after the US $ 185.6 billion. This year, it will spend $ 15 billion is expected only on the content.
At the same time, like Google 's Daydream and Oculus VR platform such action has only just begun to bring to you, such as mixed reality Dreamscape players will forever change the way we experience the story, exotic environment even in the future the way the classroom.
With IAC chairman, former Fox and Paramount executive Barry Diller's words, "Hollywood is now irrelevant."
In this two-part series of articles, I will discuss in depth the future of the entertainment industry three trends: artificial intelligence-based content management, participatory story building and immersive VR / AR / MR world.
Today, I will explore the creative aspects of the creation of artificial intelligence in the future of on-demand content, as well as cooperation with the music to film and other creative personnel, to improve their craft.
Let's check it out now!
Artificial Intelligence Entertainment Assistant
For many of us, the film makes us the concept of artificial intelligence becomes alive, from Marvel's Jarvis to 2001's "Howl Space Odyssey."
Today, 50 years later, we have never seen artificial intelligence will be given a life story.
Integration of virtual reality and the rise of a huge virtual world, has begun to create artificial intelligence greatly detailed renderings of the Death Star, and complex story arc to generate complex supporting role, even your favorite stars-whether Marlon Brando Amy Winehouse -back big screen and the built environment.
Although artificial intelligence is still in its infancy, but it has been used to embody avatars, you can talk to in virtual reality will soon be customized according to your personal preferences.
But with the rapid development of this industry in the convergence arena, artificial intelligence will be far more than one role in the future of the entertainment industry.
You may have seen the results of complex algorithms, these algorithms can predict exactly given you a chance to watch a movie or TV show on Netflix, or queuing for your next video on YouTube recommendation algorithm. Or consider Spotify playlist, and it established a pass algorithm optimized for your upcoming favorite songs, a list of personalization.
Entertainment and Artificial Intelligence Assistant has just begun.
The purpose of the current assistant AIs like Google or Huawei Xiaoyi (voice assistant, lived in Huawei's smart phones and smart cube speaker AI), AI advances will soon make your assistant search and select songs based on current expectations and emotions the film carefully selected bridge you and your friends to watch a movie in the evening a group preferences, and even personalized game character with you as you level from level.
Or even imagine your own home use facial techniques to assess your character, cross-reference your historical data entertainment options within a given time or frame of mind, and automatically arranges a suitable context of a song or a specific scene for the comic relief of video.
Planning content generator
However, in addition to predict personalized, artificial intelligence is still generated content, increase your music tracks, to develop a new plot line, or even your favorite actor back on the screen - or better - with direct to your living room.
Artificial intelligence sports transmission, for example.
A group of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley using machine learning to generate a subset of confrontation network (GAN), the development of an artificial intelligence technology transfer action, professionals dance movements can be superimposed to any amateur ( "target") of seamless video.
Carolyn Chen and her team first goal of the operation is mapped onto a simple pen portraits, created a framework for database, each framework portraits with simple pen gesture is associated. They then use this database to train GAN, so that the image of the target person is generated according to a given stick figure posture.
The source of the video frame by frame in a series of gestures mapped to the target, and soon, so anyone could walk in space like Michael Jackson, as gliding like Ginger Rogers, or join the ranks of legendary dancer on a virtual stage.
Somewhat reminiscent of artificial intelligence generated "fake depth" against the network using the formula in the film may greatly disrupt the entertainment, so legendary actor back to the screen, so that everyone can become a virtual star.
As digital artists are increasingly using high-fidelity three-dimensional scanning technology to enhance computer-generated imagery (CGI) technology, in order to obtain an accurate reproduction of an unprecedented variety of information from the pores to realistic hair texture, artificial intelligence is about to CGI bring a major upgrade.
Enter countless footage, artificial intelligence system can be trained to perfect the facial movements and expressions, copy them on any CGI model, whether newly generated faces, or your favorite actor iterations.
Wanted Marilyn Monroe starred in the creation of a new "Fast and Furious" movie? No problem! You want brother starred in the original Star Wars movie? It may soon be like artificial intelligence to edit a contract like him simple to prepare for his next birthday jedi theme.
Like James Cameron, co-founder of companies such as Digital Domain, we are trying to pave the way for such a future. Digital Domain's visual effects artists have used proprietary artificial intelligence system, with unparalleled efficiency will be integrated into the human CGI character design.
As of Digital Domain Digital Human Group director Darren Handler explains, "we can actually put the actor's performance - especially facial performances - converted into digital characters.
Last weekend, ai and cgi cooperation in "The Avengers: finality" occupy a central position, seamlessly reproduce the villain Thanos facial expressions.
Even in the field of video games, the algorithm is also used to upgrade the revival of classic video games of childhood, with compelling new features low-resolution graphics upgrade.
Topaz Labs is an artificial intelligence have started to upgrade the technology commercialization company. Though we need some hand-made, but GANs use greatly speed up this process, is expected to produce an extraordinary impact on the game visual effects.
But these Gans is how to work it? After millions of low and high resolution images GAN training, part of the algorithm tries to construct a high-resolution frame from lower-resolution images, while the second part the output is evaluated. Due to the improved generation and evaluation GAN feedback loop drives, over time, the upgrade will only become more effective.
Albert Young, chief technology officer of Topaz Labs, explains: "When it is repeatedly seen millions of pictures, which begin to understand when it sees a low-resolution image, high-resolution images of what it was like . "
Imagine, in the future, we can convert any movie or low-resolution image by clicking on a button and give it significant details.
But get upgraded artificial intelligence is not just movies and games. Today, artificial intelligence songwriter is having a significant impact on the music industry from the track to the personalized melody creation.
AI songwriter and creative collaborators
Although artificial intelligence start-up company does not intend to replace your favorite singer, but they are leap onto the music scene, he raised millions of dollars in venture capital to help musicians create new melodies and potentially beat ...... Maybe one day, they also create their own lyrics.
To Flow Machines, for example, which is a already in use songwriting algorithm. Today, Flow Machines have been numerous music artists as a creative assistant, even on Spotify playlists and top music charts.
Start-up companies are quickly moving up, including Amber, Popgun, jukebox and Amadeus Code.
But how these algorithms work? Handle mixed playlists by thousands of first specific type of song or artist, song writing algorithms are now able to optimize and customize output explain the specific style of melody and chord progression. These, in turn, helped refine human artists tunes, get a new beat, and to previously unimaginable scale to enhance creativity.
As the founder of Thai-Amadeus Code of Fukuyama explained, "History tells us that the emerging technologies in the field of music led to an explosion of art. For AI songwriting, I believe (it's just) suitable creators gathered around it Arise, manufacturing a cultural explosion of a matter of time. "
Looking to create a machine to become a part of that future, Will.i. am even describe a scenario, he might tell his songwriting AI assistant, "Give me a shuffle mode, pull a bass line, give me a feeling Collins boots ......"
Artificial intelligence: The next innovation revolution
In the next decade, the entertainment industry will experience its greatest revolution. With the integration of artificial intelligence and virtual reality, and the collision with the popular digital platform, we will soon witness the rise of all things, from education and entertainment, interactive story-based game to talk, to immersive world, to the role of artificial intelligence plot line and demand creation, any place, any person, almost zero cost.
We have seen a dramatic dematerialization entertainment. With the democratization of broadcasting platforms and new tools between the entertainment industry and countless other birth integration, streaming media has swept the globe.
AI brought the next major subversion, it is soaring to new heights of creativity and artistic ability, the content output doubled, so that any artists can improve their skills, regardless of funding agency or how to record transactions.
With the advances in artificial intelligence, the rear end of the creative process and facilitate the generation of content, virtual worlds and AR / VR hardware will change our experience of front-end content.
In the next blog in this series, we will examine mixed reality experience for collaborative storytelling VR and AR interfaces that will bring location-based entertainment of your immediate environment.
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