Thursday, Archive

Thursday, July 25^th, 2024

Noon – 12:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

IMO – 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.

Session II:

The AI Breakthrough: Establishing a New Art Form - Algorithmic, Poetic Computation and Digital Art

What does it mean for art when creativity intersects unbounded computation? New frontiers emerge. As algorithms dance with imagination, revolutionary artifacts are the result. We witness math-derived beauty, code-constructed consciousness, silicon muses. The origins of these ideas trace to pioneers like John Whitney animating to electronic beats in 1960s Los Angeles or Frieder Nake algorithmically auto-drawing alongside Andy Warhol's Pop Art ascent. And today, we must look to and thank Zach Lieberman of MIT, for his seminal contribution to the field of algorithmic, poetic computation, and digital experiences. Today, there are an unlimited number of artists and adventurers experimenting in algorithmic and poetic computation. In this session we honor this magnificent tradition.

Session III:

The Best in AI Music: Pro Reviews: Musicians, Techies, Critics

In this session, we bring together musicians, producers, craftsmen, and software developers to better understand “AI and Music,” and the role it is playing in the trajectory and future of music creation. Is the professional use of AI substantially different from the impact of synthesizers, drum machines, and other electronic gear on the music of the 1970s and 80s? Obviously, AI can generate original composition, melodies and lyrics, and flex its technological muscles in musical creation and there is no question that the professional musician and producer can use it to great effect in day-to-day work. But music and art denote emotion and passion that come from the human experience. The AI might be able to mimic Bob Dylan and Bob Marley, but can an AI synthesize a musician and musical creations of that order?

Session: IV:

Multimodal AI Creation – Deep Dive on 3D – Taking NeRF to the Limits

Among the goals of our conference attendees is to create “Cinematic Images,” to upscale a 2D image and reimagine it as a 3D Images in metaverse environment and to then make it move in a cinematic frame. We are entering an age of imaging moving images from text commands, from transforming an iPhone photo and transforming it into a Cinematic two-minute film. Much of this is known as NeRF, Neural Radiance Field technology and it is at the core of all the primary image transformation technologies being developed by NVIDIA, Unity, Unreal Engine, Google, Meta and Runway. Volumetric 3D images can be created from artistic sketches and those images can then be transformed into cinematic experiences. In this session we will probe the minds of the geek philosophers in our roundtable.

1 – 1:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

IMO – 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.

Session II:

The Apple Vision Pro - Spatial AI: Advanced Awareness - Let’s Go There

In this session, we will not be debating the pros and cons of the Apple Vision Pro. YouTube has already served up hundreds of them. AVP has opened the door to “Spatial Computing” with a clarity that has never existed before. Will AVP be a gateway to “Immersive Entertainment?” Yes it will. Will AVP open the door to “Creative Productivity?” Yes it will. Will this version of AVP be the gateway to lighter and less expensive footprints. Yes it will. Will it become a preferred communications device? Yes it will. All this and more, especially for the installed base of over 2 Billion users worldwide of Apple phone or computer users. The AVP is like a down payment on the future of computing and communication.

Session III:

Virtual Human Exploration: Nuance & Emotion • Vocal Expression • Facial Movements – Sentiment - Hyper-Realistic Synthesis of Prose

Can we as humans create emotional bonds with virtual or synthetic beings? That is a good question that we cannot answer, at least we have not experienced it quite yet. We have experienced it through movies such as “Her” and “Blade Runner.” And today we can experience conversational AI with Chat Bots, which are becoming more advanced in their ability to explore complex philosophical and emotional questions, which can be exceedingly helpful in academic, work related and even through creative composition. AI developers are not far away from not only imagining but creating the virtual human, in video form and soon, as a “Humanoid Robot.” It is about nuance and emotion, vocal expression and sentiment and synthesis of prose. Don’t be surprised when a door opens, and in it will be a brother from another planet.

Session: IV:

AI 3D Simulations, Character Behavior and Story Generation: Exploring GANs and Character-Aware Neural Language Models

Can AI technology make movies? If we begin with that question and search for answers, we will find that the progress is not only being made, in some weeks, the progress appears to be a breakthrough. Compare the “Will Smith Spaghetti” video of a year ago with the OpenAI’s recent “Sora” synthetic video creations and one might call that an “OMG” moment, the “Aha Moment” in AI and video creation. How long, how detailed, how dramatic, and nuanced must the prompt be to generate the first five minutes of a short film? And, how many seconds, minutes or hours will it take for the AI to generate the “Cinematic Experience?” In this session, we will open a discussion about AI, 3D simulations and story generation. What is the journey to AI and storytelling?

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.

Session II:

Prompt as Code – The Interface of Natural Human Language with the Complexity of Algorithms

Let’s face down the paradox at hand. Creative human language encourages subtlety and ambiguity, the intuitive and poetic which would seem to be at odds with the strictly structured demands of code and computer programming. How do we square the circle of lyrical expression and the joy in crafting inventive narrative flows with the current state of AI? After all, it is in the beauty of language that we communicate our deepest feelings which would appear at odds with the unambiguous logic and structured sequences of AI. Perhaps the paradox which exists today, in time, with further development and refinement of AI and ML will someday disappear. It is likely that the interface of language and algorithm will be bridged and make way for a next generation of creative and code.

Session: III:

A Demo: AI Artists and Photographers “Train” their own “Themed Model Sets”

Here’s something for artists and photographers to consider, training your own “AI Neural Network” with the digitized library of your life’s artistic work. In the end, an AI could explore that universe of imagery, the sum-total of your imagination, and create new and unique visual or audio and visual experiences. What if the Andy Warhol collection of sketches, interviews, silk screens, movies, video, and other Warhol artifacts were “Trained” in a Neural Network Architecture, a Warhol GAN, so that the AI would internalize the nuances, colors, stylistic flourishes and idiosyncratic ideas and subtleties in Warhol's style. Over time and through some months or years of trial and error, of artistic and other unique data set experimentation, a new AI Language of Andy Warhol would begin to emerge. It might be very different from the Warhol we know, but it also might be equally unique.

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:

The Hollywood Trajectory: The Generative AI Video Timeline: 2023 – 2024 – 2025 – 2026

How fast will AI take over Hollywood? That’s the question. After YouTube; After VFX and the Nightmare of Sequels, After Netflix, Amazon and cord cutting; Remember, Napster Killed the Music Industry!! What’s next? Is AI the Machine that’s going to “Eat Hollywood.” We are already beginning to understand the impact of AI on Screenwriting, AI and Virtual Charters and AI’s impact on VFX. Video Editing is clearly in the eye of the AI storm and the role of extras not to mention complicated backgrounds that will magically appear through the power of AI. In this session, we will speculate on the impact of AI on Hollywood and try to understand the impact and growth of “The AI Blob.” How soon will entire movies, TV shows and Ads being fully produced by a giant AI. 2026? 2028? What will Hollywood look like in 2030?

Session: III:

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 - AI Couture, Fashion & Beauty: Influencers, Virtual Models, Electronic Runways, Visual Design and Electric Materials

Session II:

The AI Creativity Co-Pilot: Miles, Kubrick, Coltrane, Scorsese & David Bowie by your Side

AI may not be able to create a symphony, inventing the arc of a significant film project or improvise sophisticated jazz, but it can be “Trained” to the entire film, music and artistic libraries and associated materials, including film, video, text and music of all the great artists in history. In addition, it can be “Trained” to understand how to break down screenplay elements, character development and emotional range, scene by scene, film by film, so that at the end of the many months long process of “Training” on the works of Stanley Kubrick and John Coltrane, one might have successfully created an AI that can approximate and converse in the “Language” of the masters. The AI might not be able to create a product that looks or feels like a work produced by one of the greats, but for a creative professional, such a “Co-Pilot” might become an indispensable aide and remarkable addition to the creative process.

5 – 5:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

IMO – The Best in Humor and Satire, Deep Fake Music, Girlfriends, Avatars or other AI Meme Phenomena this Past Year

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?”

Session II:

AI & the Visual Art of the Imagination: ‘Creating Worlds that Never Were’ (Carl Sagan)

As Carl Sagan once eloquently stated, there are unseen worlds, born from the fusion of human creativity and artificial intelligence, that actually have the power to transform our understanding of art and reality itself. It is one of the joys of innovation, the result of our culture’s passage into “Brave New Worlds” of advanced technology and the desire to explore. Through computational art as well as generative models, artists are experiencing and creating art through new eyes, reaching into what one might call the “Uncharted Territory of the Imagination.” In this session, we will explore the symbiotic relationship between artist and machine and probe a universe of new possibilities, where the boundaries of what is possible in some ways have never been imagined before.

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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 & Threats, Bias & Rights

VI: Track Six: AI Fashion & Design

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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

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