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AI film: "The Mannequin" (post-human hobbies) - C C - Jun 30, 2024
Researchers no longer have to travel to the planet Solaris to study an alien intelligence that conjures baffling phenomena whose meaning and significance they struggle to understand.
https://youtu.be/336bNLFkVqY
RE: AI film: "The Mannequin" (post-human hobbies) - Zinjanthropos - Jun 30, 2024
(Jun 30, 2024 08:15 AM)C C Wrote: Researchers no longer have to travel to the planet Solaris to study an alien intelligence that conjures baffling phenomena whose meaning and significance they struggle to understand.
https://youtu.be/336bNLFkVqY
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/336bNLFkVqY
Not sure what to make of it. They say it’s art so if you think there are mistakes here does one just ignore?
Good to see AI’s version of Hitchcock but I didn’t like the voice, not even close. Anyways the blonde looked like a cross between Marilyn Monroe and Scarlett Johansson while the unblinking brunette looked somewhat like Sophia Loren. The phone receiver was cordless and the rotary phone had a cord that seemed to go nowhere. I liked how the city’s buildings’ lights were flickering with the beat of the music and of course the sudden reversal of traffic outside the window. Shadowy figures, cars moving sideways, mid console steering wheels, distorted mirror images, and did you notice the straps on Marilyn’s dress? From the back one strap definitely more wider and ruffled than it appeared from a front view.
I think I was more fascinated by reading the AI tag to the film. I could easily take this as the way AI sees the world but the skeptic in me thinks it’s just how Nobody sees it, that is if Nobody is human(s).
RE: AI film: "The Mannequin" (post-human hobbies) - confused2 - Jul 1, 2024
Z. Wrote:the skeptic in me thinks it’s just how Nobody sees it, that is if Nobody is human(s).
There is always (probably true in this case) a suspicion that there's a W. of Oz type wizard behind the curtain. There will come a time (possibly already) when you pull the curtain back and there's nothing there .. the wizard is real.
RE: AI film: "The Mannequin" (post-human hobbies) - C C - Jul 1, 2024
If all Nobody inputted was: "Horror short about a mannequin, with a Hitchcock introduction explaining that this was outputted by artificial intelligence", then the AI program still did all the heavy lifting. In the context of its eccentric apprehension of the human world and training from a database.
Not much different from the feats of mundane ChatGPT, or this free AI story generator producing a text tale from a bare, seven-word description:
https://www.squibler.io/ai-story-generator
In some respects, it's like the brain assembling a dream from the initial stimulus of a bug crawling on the skin of a human sleeper. Many of us have probably long suspected, via the surreal nature of dreams, that the non-awake or background-running version of the brain itself is a bizarre variety of intelligence akin to the ocean entity of Solaris. The furrowed organ is an ugly-looking parasite, reverting to its true ways when allegiance to the nature of the overall body and its surrounding environment is shut down.
RE: AI film: "The Mannequin" (post-human hobbies) - stryder - Jul 1, 2024
I noticed the script had a convolution of writing styles. Some simplistic passages and others seemed far more overbloated. I guess the AI hasn't identified how to define a character by having a meaningful backstory. (I'm sure it could populate one, but it would just be bullet points and not painted with words like a writer would. 2D characters might as well be written into a popup book.)
The real "WISARD" (possibly Igor Aleksander and co.) would only be shown when there is no other observer than the one the AI is dealing with directly in real-time, where the AI has made all the choices without any input. Any editing or touch-ups definitely undermine it making nothing but a (snip/yoink/rip) tool.