The AI & IMOs: In My Opinion

Celebrating the AI Voices of The Global Town Square

The Platforms: X/Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Linkedin, Facebook & Substack

Thursday, July 25^th, 2024

Noon – 12:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

IMO – "In My Opinion:" The Most Important AI Cinematic Movie Shorts in the past 6 Months

The “In My Opinion Roundtables” will bring to life the daily and sometimes hourly ongoing discussions of AI, technology and creativity as represented on “Media,” and “Social Media” platforms. And it often the first thing the AI and creative industries read to jumpstart the day. Across the board, independent technologists and academics, artists and creatives, journalists and opinion writers create the “Lifeblood Discussion” in all matters of AI, creativity, art and tech innovation. In this, the first roundtable of the day, the topic is Cinematic AI, Innovative Movies, Music Videos, Video Experiments and Special Effects. The speakers participating in this roundtable will not be unlike the viewers in our virtual audience, they will all be participants in the daily conversation at the core of what we might call, the “IMO In My Opinion” global community.

1 – 1:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

IMO – "In My Opinion" - The Most Dynamic in “AI & Technology: The 24/7 AI Tech News Feed” - From Updates to Analysis

The weekend of OpenAI’s November 2023 meltdown had a special meaning for everyone in the technology industry. It ranked somewhere between D-Day, the World Series and the Thanksgiving week that followed. While the ultimate meaning of the great technology feast of Thanksgiving 2023 may still be unclear, what was perfectly clear was the level of excitement generated on social media. Every person worth their salt in the industry was glued to their “Feed,” reading real-time updates from the “Principal Players Themselves!” tech movie stars each and every one. And “Keyboard Tech Visionaries,” were providing play-by-play on the social media platforms. OpenAI almost broke the Internet that weekend, because it secretly spoke to us. It spoke to us because AI is the most dominant new technology since the Internet boom in 1999 and because the social media platforms provide a massive community to codify our dreams.

2 – 2:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

IMO: “In My Opinion” AI & Technology on YouTube: A Major Media Category of its Own

While YouTube may be the platform for movies, music, sports, and deep dives into every facet of humanity, it is overwhelmingly the home of everything technology, from fifteen-minute product reviews to hour-long podcasts on the most complex and groundbreaking innovation in Artificial Intelligence. YouTube has replaced the influence of tech writers at newspapers and magazines.  In fact, YouTube also functions as a “University Program” in technology. Hundreds of thousands of YouTube viewers have “Learned to Code” on YouTube. One day there will be an Academy Awards for Tech Influencers or Tech Podcasters, or Deep Dive Tech Lecturers or Technology Artists. For today, we are pleased to welcome a group of renown technology experts and innovators who regularly post on YouTube.

3 – 3:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

IMO – "In My Opinion:" Breakthroughs in Generative AI, LLMs, Virtual Humans or Diffusion Technology

The “AI Newsfeeds” are like a technology racetrack with the thoroughbreds always out pacing the “Newsfeed Mids,” the second-raters who cop the headlines or videos for cheap “Clicks.”  But it is always the “Techie Purebreds” who “lay down the law” and take over the conversation. It’s what separates the “Pros” from the “Posers.” Establishing the winners on the “Tech” racetrack when an audience of hundreds of thousands a day are trying to determine the breaking news on AIs, LLMs, Virtual Humans or Diffusion Technology. The tech industry is the most competitive and probably the most transparent as well. To the winners go the spoils or the win goes to players with the “First Mover Advantage.” It’s hard to say what’s true, which is why up-to-the-minute “Long or Short Takes” off social-media can sometimes be the difference maker.

Session: II:

IMO – “In My Opinion:” The AI Artists & Computational Designers, Critics & Academics – The Passion is on Social Media

AI has “Rung the Starting Bell,” in the cultural embrace of Digital Art. It has given license for “Artistic Creators” and the cultural powers that be to embrace the unique tools which include the ideas of Computational Art together with the greater impact of machine learning together with artificial intelligence. This has been years in the making. The outcry surrounding “Photoshop” in the 1990s produced a howl, as if a “Foreign Religious Force” had invaded the “Design District of New York,” it was so long ago. And the arrival of the NFT was nearly as disconcerting. But somehow, perhaps it is because of the obvious “Power of AI,” the imagery that the AIs produce is somehow creating its own sense of inevitability. In this session will be bring together a group of “Creatives” to discuss the arrival of a new art form and perhaps a new consciousness.



4 – 4:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

IMO - "In My Opinion:" AI Couture, Fashion & Beauty: Influencers, Virtual Models, Electronic Runways, Visual Design and Electric Materials

5 – 5:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

IMO – "In My Opinion" The Best in Humor and Satire, Deep Fake Music, Girlfriends, Avatars or other AI Meme Phenomena

Question does an “AI Girlfriend” count as a “Deep Fake,” because she’s definitely a “Virtual Human,” but she’s also convincing and a perfect replica of a famous movie star. Swipe right for sure. And is the Meme version of Donald Trump, closer to the real one than the original? Or did Donald Trump actually perform in a “Bollywood Musical” and dance with a cast of hundreds? In this session, we’ll try to smoke out what’s real and who actually faked Frank Sinatra smoothy singing down and dirty rap lyrics. AI has opened the door to satire that is sending folks around the bend. Did the Beatles ever sing “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” and did Paul Simon ever cover “Strawberry Fields.” It was just announced that the “Bohemian Rhapsody, Celebrity AI Cover Show” has more views on TikTok than Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero.” Is that real? But in the end, is AI humor ultimately any different from “The Bachelorette” or “Bachelor in Paradise?”

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 I. Track One: AI: Artists of the 21st Century

II. Track Two: Virtual Humans and Robotics

III. Track Three: AI and Hollywood Production

IV. Track Four: AI and Music: Artists vs. Tech

V. Track Five: AI Startups & Investment

VI. Track Six: AI & Threats, Bias & Rights

VII: Track Seven: AI Fashion & Design

To View By Day - In Eastern Time Zone

I. The Evening Keynotes, July 22nd - 24th

II. Tuesday, July 23rd - Noon - 5 PM

III. Wednesday, July 24th - Noon - 5 PM

IV. Thursday, July 25th - Noon - 5 PM