An example of the application scenario of artificial intelligence in the entertainment field

Artificial intelligence is one of the hottest topics at the moment, and people's influence on technologies such as machine translation, autonomous driving, NLP and CV will also be the same. Optimists are imagining that the word "driver" will become history one day, while pessimists worry that millions of truck drivers are about to face unemployment.

In the past, artificial intelligence was often expressed as a Skynet effect similar to the Terminator film. In fact, artificial intelligence currently has a very real landing product in the entertainment industry. Below we will list some exciting projects.

"reading" before going to bed

The tentacles of artificial intelligence have extended to all aspects of entertainment life, even family traditions that last for thousands of years, and it can help parents read the story of their sleep. For example, companies such as Novel Effect have developed a language content interaction system that can be used with the sounds of various small animals when parents tell the story of Beast Home.

Looking into the future, interactive holography developed by companies such as 8i will allow you to see the Seussian in children's play as an interactive character. Earplay is another technology company whose technology in mobile device development has freed moms' time. After the child goes to bed, the recorder begins to imitate the mother's voice to tell the children stories.

The imaginative Holden hears stories about himself

Disneyland

Disneyland was once a bridge between real life and childhood fantasy, and artificial intelligence technology is also here. When it comes to theme parks, Disney has always been at the forefront. The Disney Research Institute works closely with the creative team of theme parks to design a number of rides and attractions that we know and love.

If you use the technology of Zippy.ai, how about putting a semi-automatic R2D2 robot in the upcoming Star Wars theme park in Disneyland? With automatic navigation technology to support, the robots that drive automatically are very safe to move between children.

Or, can you use the deeper interactive technology to make the characters of Disney animation out of the paper and integrate into real life? Can Mickey Mouse talk to her guests with her unique voice and interact with the children's questions?

Celebrity imitation

Artificial intelligence is not only used to synthesize entertainment sounds, but also to mimic the voices of celebrities, including the voice, intonation and tone of the characters. For example, if you type something, the machine can mimic the sound of Taylor Swift, and the effect is vivid. Similarly, it's easy to think of moving this technology to smart assistants. If you answer the weather query with Morgan Freeman, who wouldn't be happy?

In the future, people no longer have to read the paper version of The New York Times, but listen to Anderson Cooper to read the news and throw a lot of questions into Siri or Alexa's brain. Of course, Anderson is virtual. Voice interactive products such as Google Home and Apple's upcoming HomePod are estimated to be close to 20 million units in North America this year and 140 million units by 2020, which means that most people will have access to such products.

The important thing is that the more people use these devices, the more intelligent the underlying algorithms are. Every problem, every instruction, is actually a training data, which makes the model smarter.

Celebrity imitation is not limited to sound. Digital Obama, produced by Paul G. Allen of the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, confirmed the ability to produce fake video. Of course, innovative technologies will also have a dark side. The politically inclined people will indulge in all kinds of fake news, and the media will be used by fake videos. People who are trying to misbehave may design some conversations in the video, then pair them with voice, facial animations and body language to copy a conversational video that is confusing and convincing. According to actual observations, almost no one suspects that this is not a real speech video delivered by President Obama himself.

Virtual Reality

If you have dreamed of fleeing to another universe, then artificial intelligence technology will help you achieve: virtual reality that incorporates artificial intelligence technology makes it more credible in all aspects and feels more immersive. Assuming that you don't want to escape to the post-apocalyptic world, the algorithm will add multi-dimensional avatars to your virtual reality world.

The Rain AI engine has been used by 100,000 game developers around the world, and the theory of competitors has made great strides in this area. Limitless used an interactive virtual character short film produced by its own platform, Gray and Gull, to conquer the participants of the 2016 Game Developers Conference. Similarly, the SIGGRAPH conference has recently attracted a large number of participants in this field.

Due to the advancement of artificial intelligence technology, the story itself has become more complicated. A neural network model trained according to the player's personal experience can adapt the existing plot to the player's taste preferences.

Massive Software has added artificial intelligence factors to its crowd simulation algorithms. Their pre-designed artificial intelligence agents can be added directly to the scene, and visual engineers can use them according to the storyline, saving time in generating CGI characters.

Animated film

The animation industry has also attracted the addition of artificial intelligence technology, and Midas Touch has developed a tool to automatically design 2D animated characters. The behind-the-scenes creator is the veteran of Pixar animation, who used the WALL-E robot to move artificial intelligence technology into real life. Pixar itself is also taking advantage of the AI ​​wave to apply depth learning techniques to detect and reject poor quality image frames, significantly improving animation productivity. Last year, Google also added a sense of humour to artificial intelligence with Pixar's products.

advertising

Artificial intelligence not only improves our experience in terms of vision and interaction, it also understands users' preferences and emotions, and provides users with personalized content customization services. Netflix's exquisite recommendation algorithm has already made people shine, and video operators based on emotion recognition and facial recognition technology can recommend videos based on the user's mood. The iPhone X's front camera captures the user's facial image and unlocks the phone through computer vision algorithms. Imagine the new technology of Apple's advertising. When you browse content on your mobile phone, the camera will push you ads at the corresponding position on the screen by tracking the direction of your eyeball activity. The camera can analyze which area of ​​the screen the user is viewing and the emotional state of the viewing. In the near future, media rating agency Nielsen will be replaced by these innovative technologies.

Many companies in the market have put these new technologies into actual products: TVision Insights measures viewers' preferences for TV shows by analyzing "real viewers." Affectiva uses computer vision and deep learning techniques to analyze user facial expressions to determine user sentiment. Game studio Flying Mollusk has developed a new game using Affectiva's software to adjust the game's difficulty in real time based on the user's panic. Further, when the user is sad, happy or excited, the intelligent assistant can select and play different music for the host.

summary

I believe that everyone has already seen that the application scenarios of artificial intelligence in the entertainment field are varied. Every time people use AI-assisted entertainment devices to rest, chat, or play games, they provide training data for the algorithm, allowing the algorithm to better understand user habits and better provide entertainment services for users. Did the readers experience the change?