Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Want strategies for how to embrace the power of computing and ML? Confused about how AI will help and/or hurt M&E? Look no further. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are some of the buzziest and most controversial topics to dig into.

Discover AI and ML content, sorted into three categories: AI & ML Fundamentals; How AI & ML Aid Creativity; and AI & ML Moneymakers.

Intelligent Content

What Will DALL-E Mean for the Future of Creativity?

Courtesy of OpenAI A new AI is so good at producing images that it could quickly find a home as part of the production process... but it’s definitely not putting […]

Adrian Pennington

Intelligent Content

Binge Watching as an Applied Science

Adrian Pennington

Intelligent Content

No, That Google AI Isn’t Sentient. It Just Has A Lot of Opinions.

Adrian Pennington

Connect

You Are Not Your Own AI Data Set

Adrian Pennington

AI & ML Fundamentals

Hey, Sam! Tell Me About AI and ML Applications for Media

What's the difference between artificial intelligence and machine learning? (Is there a difference?) How can AI/ML help the media industry work smarter, not harder today — and how might that […]

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Can Intelligent Content Create a Better Future for the M&E Industry?

We’ve spent the last few months doing a deep dive into intelligent content. Trying to work out what it actually means... And how it can help us as creative entities […]

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AI’s Threat to Jobs Might Be Real… But There’s Actually Value in Just Being Human

The Voigt-Kampff machine in “Blade Runner” (1982) directed by Ridley Scott. Cr: Warner Bros. READ MORE: AI’s Threats to Jobs and Human Happiness Are Real (IEEE Spectrum) By 2041 there […]

Adrian Pennington

Ai-Da

What Does It Mean If a Robot Takes a Selfie?

Described as the world’s first ultra-realistic humanoid robot artist, Ai-Da is the brainchild of Aidan Meller and Lucy Seal and built by Engineered Arts. Cr: The Ai-Da Robot Project READ […]

Adrian Pennington

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Can Intelligent Content Create a Better Future for the M&E Industry?

We’ve spent the last few months doing a deep dive into intelligent content. Trying to work out what it actually means... And how it can help us as creative entities […]

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November 28, 2021

How to Process the Difference Between AI and Machine Learning

It’s one of the bugbears of vendors who might have a genuinely artificially intelligent product that so many of their rivals claim the same for inferior technology. Likewise, the use […]

Adrian Pennington

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August 10, 2021

Does Your Use of Technology Carry Ethical Weight?

You create with technology everyday; we write about technology. But have you ever stopped and thought about the ethics behind the tech? Didn’t think so, and perhaps you don’t need […]

Adrian Pennington

Digitization, Datafication and Virtualization

October 5, 2021

This Is Gonna Be Your 2022: Digitization, Datafication and Virtualization

What’s ahead in technology for 2022? Forbes has taken a look at the future, now shaped by the pandemic-induced acceleration of digitization and virtualization across society. In 2022, Forbes contributor […]

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January 30, 2022

In the Case of AI Vs. Free Will…

READ MORE: If AI Is Predicting Your Future, Are You Still Free? (Wired) One of the age-old themes illuminated in Shakespeare’s Macbeth is that of free will. Does Macbeth possess […]

Adrian Pennington

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October 5, 2021

No Robot Overlords Just Yet: AI Is Still Going to Require Humans

Artificial Intelligence is around us more and more, but the inventor of one of our most ubiquitous household robots has a message for fellow humans: We’re still needed for the […]

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January 10, 2022

This Will Be Your 2032: Quantum Sensors, AI With Feeling, and Life Beyond Glass

Within in the decade, quantum technologies are poised to transform communications, the next generation of AI technologies will understand human emotion, and screen-free “ambient” computing will make technology ubiquitous. These […]

Adrian Pennington

Based on a 2016 short story by Alexander Weinstein, South Korea-born American director Kogonada’s “After Yang” explores a new take on sci-fi’s eternal Turing question. The film stars Collin Farrell as Jake, pictured above. Cr: A24

February 6, 2022

The Soulful Sci-Fi of “After Yang”

Based on a 2016 short story by Alexander Weinstein, South Korea-born American director Kogonada’s “After Yang” explores a new take on sci-fi’s eternal Turing question. The film stars Collin Farrell […]

Adrian Pennington

One of cinema’s most chilling villains is the artificial intelligence HAL 9000 from “2001: A Space Odyssey,” 1968. Cr: MGM

Are Voice Actors About To be Replaced by Machines?

One of cinema’s most chilling villains is the artificial intelligence HAL 9000 from “2001: A Space Odyssey,” 1968. Cr: MGM Worries about digital actors replacing the real thing remain on […]

Adrian Pennington

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September 1, 2021

The Tech That’ll Take Streaming Into the Future

Content may be forever king but our enjoyment of it goes hand in hand with tech developments. That’s been the case since at least Gutenberg (Johannes not Steve) invented the […]

Adrian Pennington

Charlie Chaplin in “Modern Times”

January 11, 2022

Adobe’s Scott Belsky Predicts 2022’s Five Most Significant Tech Trends | Source: Business Insider

Charlie Chaplin in “Modern Times” “Every year I challenge myself to synthesize the themes in technology and culture for which I have most conviction, and attempt to project where they […]

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October 19, 2021

How Does Big Data Power Content Discovery?

Viewers have almost every type of content at their fingertips, with a total of more than 3,000 streaming services to choose from. With all that choice, what does it take […]

December 13, 2020

AI, 5G and IoT Set to Be Most Important Technologies in 2021

According to the IEEE 2020 Global Survey, artificial intelligence and machine learning, 5G and Internet of Things are believed to be the most important technologies for 2021. Artificial intelligence and […]

Fergal Ringrose

How AI & ML Aid Creativity

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Invest in Digital Skills and AI to Improve Creativity

As AI advances into all industries it will eliminate millions of jobs but will generate more employment than it consumes. That general finding from the World Economic Forum last year […]

Adrian Pennington

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December 13, 2020

The “Automation of Automation:” AI Can/Will Be Your New Creative Partner

AI is being greeted with equal amounts enthusiasm and skepticism within media and entertainment. It can change the economics, but what does that mean for you? Jeff Bezos called it in 2017: […]

Adrian Pennington

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January 30, 2022

What AI Could Mean for the Creative Process…. and What It Will Mean

From plot ideation to workflow optimization, the penetration of AI into the media chain continues to throw up the philosophical question about the machine’s potential to create. In Hollywood, there’s […]

Adrian Pennington

Free Guy

September 19, 2021

VR In the Movies Is a Real Nightmare

Ryan Reynolds in “Free Guy,” courtesy of Paramount Pictures Free Guy starring Ryan Reynolds is the latest in a long line of films leaning into computer gaming and virtual reality. […]

Adrian Pennington

A salmon is detected in footage from underwater cameras in the River Ness.

AI on BBC’s “Winterwatch:” Can You Automate a Wildlife Documentary?

A salmon is detected in footage from underwater cameras in the River Ness. “Recording many moments containing wildlife activity presents new challenges. The most interesting clips — the ones of […]

Fergal Ringrose

Ryan Reynolds as Guy in “Free Guy.” Cr: 20th Century Studios

August 30, 2021

Deep Fakes Were Fantastic for “Free Guy”

Ryan Reynolds as Guy in “Free Guy.” Cr: 20th Century Studios BY JULIAN MITCHELL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JORN2hkXLyM Ever since SkyNet became self-aware in 1997, the chilling result of computer vision in the […]

Face Off: “Welcome to Chechnya” Brings AI to Civil Rights Fight

From HBO’s Welcome to Chechnya When the Academy announced its Oscars shortlist for VFX it had pundits scrambling to make sense of one of the nominees. Out were Wonder Woman […]

Adrian Pennington

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September 19, 2021

AI Encoding Is Evolving (Everywhere)

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are the great hope for video compression if applications that require hefty data like 8K true freedom to roam Virtual Reality are to come to […]

Adrian Pennington

AI & ML Moneymakers

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February 22, 2022

Your Business in 2025 is Data-Driven, Right? (Right?)

READ MORE: The data-driven enterprise of 2025 (McKinsey & Company) By 2025, smart workflows and “seamless” interactions among humans and machines will likely be as standard as the corporate balance […]

Adrian Pennington

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What Does Intelligent Content Mean for Capitalizing on Your Content?

Click on the graphic for a larger view (or to download it). Everyone is talking about new ways of making money. Blockchain. Cryptocurrencies. NFTs. There’s a lot of chatter about […]

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The Power of SaaS and AI | Source: M&E Journal

SaaS, remote technologies, and AI will become even more essential for media and entertainment companies to remain competitive post-pandemic. “The COVID-19 pandemic has had a substantial impact on all aspects […]

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February 17, 2022

Intelligent Content Creation Inspires, Accelerates, Energizes — and Cuts Costs

We all know that content creation is a time-consuming and collaborative endeavor. And it can be prohibitively expensive. But the good news is that intelligent content, (AI, machine learning, automation, […]