Morgan releases this weekend, the science thriller about, what else, artificial intelligence. From what I’ve been able to glean from the trailers it follows the tried and true cautionary tale; scientist create AI, something goes horribly wrong, blood paints the walls. You know, the traditional moral of the story being don’t mess with artificial intelligence.
What better way to ignore that rule than to have IBM task an AI to create the first-ever “cognitive movie trailer”.
As with any AI system, the first step was training it to understand a subject area. Using machine learning techniques and experimental Watson APIs, our Research team trained a system on the trailers of 100 horror movies by segmenting out each scene from the trailers. Once each trailer was segmented into “moments”, the system completed the following;
1) A visual analysis and identification of the people, objects and scenery. Each scene was tagged with an emotion from a broad bank of 24 different emotions and labels from across 22,000 scene categories, such as eerie, frightening and loving;
2) An audio analysis of the ambient sounds (such as the character’s tone of voice and the musical score), to understand the sentiments associated with each of those scenes;
3) An analysis of each scene’s composition (such the location of the shot, the image framing and the lighting), to categorize the types of locations and shots that traditionally make up suspense/horror movie trailers.
I’m just saying, this is the first step, this is how they take over the world. First with trailers, then with Skynet. It could happen.
Watch the trailer and let us know what you think.
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