From the outside, it seems as if AI reads inputs like a normal film script and then decides how to translate the storyline into pictures (sounds like a director’s job, right?). For example, look how Phenaki processed the following description: “Side view of an astronaut who is ...
and the young man left the shop without a word. He went to a showroom on the other side of the street and asked for sixteen cars. The second salesman was polite and helpful. The young man took a bundle of bank notes out of his pocket and paid for the cars in cash. He explai[tra...
(Their romance has spanned 6,000 years; they look like they’re on their first date and it’s going really badly.) The script occasionally explores interesting ideas about the connections between superheroes, mythology, and religion, only to repeatedly abandon them for a series of stock ...
Around 2:00 in the afternoon, the anchors arrive. During the week, there are usually two; on the weekend, one suffices. From the moment they get in until some 10 hours later when their shifts are over, the anchors become local-news chameleons, reading script after script after script for...