International Business Machines Corporation, or IBM, is an American multinational technology company. With years of resources, knowledge and experience, it has Watson which is seen as a resourceful computer AI.
With it, IBM with the collaboration with 21st Century Fox, has created the first-ever trailer for the sci-fi Morgan.
Artificial Intelligence or AI has aided humans in doing many things. From Google in helping its services in working to Facebook in showing contents and many others. On other fields, AI has also accomplished many feats that include writing a short story and creating a short movie.
Now, AI is up for a new milestone.
Watson as IBM's own AI, has been on of the first artificial intelligence. On September 1st, 2016, it has added another skill when it created its own version of Morgan after learning a whole lot of horror movies.
With this accomplishment, Watson becomes the first-ever AI to produce a movie trailer.
To prepare Watson in doing its task, IBM researchers fed the AI with more than 100 horror movie trailers that have been cut into separate moments and scenes.
Here, the computer then performed a series of visual and sound composition, analyzing the data in order to get the idea of a dynamic trailer.
The idea came out from the film studio 20th Century Fox: it called in IBM Watson with the proposition to create the trailer for its Morgan which is a movie about a lab-created AI in a form of a humanoid with superhuman qualities.
Out of the 92 minutes full-length Morgan, Watson isolated 10 scenes (6 minutes videos). While human editors were still needed patch the scenes together to create a coherent story, IBM' AI has shortened the process of creating a complete trailer that usually span between 10 to 30 days, down to only 24 hours.
Watson detected important scenes in the film by watching for changes in setting and emotional tones. For example, the AI gets to know which part of the movie represents happiness, which is the scary parts and so forth.
While the outcome is indeed impressive, humans are seen to do the job better. It's no denying that Watson seems to miss the necessities of creating a few minutes trailer to describe a whole movie (while keeping up the suspense and story, of course).
But it's impressive that the AI was able to come up with something coherent.
Previously, Watson has been able to recognize photos with great accuracy among other feats.