How AI was used to Edit a Trailer for Thriller

October 13, 2016, 12:29 PM

http://nofilmschool.com/2016/10/ibm-watson-edits-m...

There's an old story about Fellini that, when asked why there wasn't a great film school in Italy to train the next generation of filmmakers, he responded, "Are you mad? We should be stabbing them in their cribs! They'll take all of our jobs!" Today, the Italian auteur would be unplugging computers and taking a hammer to hard drives, since for the first time at the studio level, artificial intelligence has been involved in editorial decision making.