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Jun 13, 2016

Movie written by AI algorithm turns out to be hilarious and intense

Posted by in categories: computing, entertainment, information science, robotics/AI

A cool experiment — a movie script written by a computer algorithm. It’s actually pretty riveting, but I challenge you to figure out what it’s about, LOL! bigsmile (Y) #AIScreenwriter #WhatDoesItMean

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Jun 13, 2016

The first ‘Star Trek’ VR game arrives this fall

Posted by in categories: entertainment, space travel, virtual reality

If you’re a Star Trek fan, the odds are that your dream game (outside of a Holodeck) involves helming a starship as if you were really on the bridge. Well, you’re about to get your wish: Ubisoft has teased Star Trek: Bridge Crew, the sci-fi series’ first-ever virtual reality game. The title is set in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek universe, and has you taking on the captain, engineer, helm or tactical stations of the remarkably Enterprise -like starship Aegis as it resettles what’s left of the Vulcan population. Think of it as a very sophisticated VR version of Spaceteam — you have to coordinate with the rest of your crew to explore the galaxy and fight off enemies.

Bridge Crew arrives this fall and will support both the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift on PCs as well as PlayStation VR. More details will have to wait until Ubisoft’s E3 press event on Monday, but it’s already clear that the publisher is making good on its promise of a big VR gaming push this year. We wouldn’t be surprised if Ubi has more extra-immersive games to show when it takes to the stage.

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Jun 10, 2016

Sunspring | A Sci-Fi Short Film Starring Thomas Middleditch

Posted by in categories: entertainment, neuroscience, robotics/AI

AI escreveu este curta metragem e é surpreendentemente divertido.
Todo o roteiro do filme é o trabalho de uma rede neural treinada em scripts de sci-fi.

Fonte: Singularity Hub

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Jun 9, 2016

This short film was written by a sci-fi hungry neural network

Posted by in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI

Remember when we played with Google’s Deep Dream neural network to create trippy visuals that featured a whole lot dogs? The creators behind the short film Sunspring do. Instead of Google’s product, however, they turned to a neural network named “Jetson” to do all the heavy lifting. The result? A bizarre nine minutes that you’ll remember for quite some time.

Starring Silicon Valley’s Thomas Middleditch and directed by Oscar Sharp, the short features a special script compiled by the neural network that even wrote a song unique to the film. After being fed scripts like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Watchmen and Aliens (as well as tons of others) it produced a nonsensical mess that actually works quite well in practice. It’s terrible. But then again, it’s so intense it’s entertaining. The film was shot and edited in 48 hours, which is a feat considering how polished it looks in practice.

As one character says “Well, I don’t know anything about any of this, so…” You might get that feeling after viewing the film, but it’s just like watching the insane ramblings of porn stars in Vernon Chatman’s Final Flesh. They’re both eerily similar in tone, though Sunspring is far more incoherent. Check it out for yourself below.

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Jun 6, 2016

These headphones have a hidden display that projects movies right into your eyes

Posted by in category: entertainment

You can even watch 3D video.

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Jun 3, 2016

AMC is live streaming a TV show on Facebook right now

Posted by in category: entertainment

This is an interesting use of the platform.

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Jun 2, 2016

A Sci-Fi Short Film HD: “Arene”

Posted by in categories: entertainment, military

When a young woman finds herself captured on board a military aircraft. The soldiers don’t think much of her, until their commander confirms her identity and all hell breaks loose. Produced by the talented Stoyan Yankov and Directed by talented Henrik B. Clausen! See the details below for more info…

INFORMATION AND CREDITS / ARENE

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Jun 2, 2016

NO-A [ Sci-Fi 3D Animated Short Film ] Official

Posted by in category: entertainment

Nifty!


Award winning graduation film NO-A completed at the Savannah College of Art and Design by a core team of 8 students.

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Jun 2, 2016

Elon Musk believes we are probably characters in some advanced civilization’s video game

Posted by in categories: augmented reality, Elon Musk, entertainment, virtual reality

Don’t believe me? Here’s Musk’s argument in full:

The strongest argument for us being in a simulation probably is the following. Forty years ago we had pong. Like, two rectangles and a dot. That was what games were.

Now, 40 years later, we have photorealistic, 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously, and it’s getting better every year. Soon we’ll have virtual reality, augmented reality.

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Jun 2, 2016

A guy trained a machine to “watch” Blade Runner. Then things got seriously sci-fi

Posted by in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI

The story of how an AI watching a movie about AIs led to the coolest, weirdest DMCA takedown ever.

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