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

April 15, 2022
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 […]

May 17, 2022
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 […]
Emma Millions

May 18, 2022
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

May 17, 2022
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

May 17, 2022
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 […]
Emma Millions

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

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

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 […]
Sanjay Talwani

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

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 […]
Sanjay Talwani

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

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

August 2, 2021
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

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

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 […]
Brett Moss

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 […]
Sanjay Talwani

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

July 7, 2021
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

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

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

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

April 26, 2021
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

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 […]
Cristina Clapp

March 30, 2021
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

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

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

April 5, 2022
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 […]
Emma Millions

April 4, 2021
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 […]
Jennifer Wolfe

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, […]
Emma Millions