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At some point, AI will replace stuntmen with completely synthesized action scenes. Contrast that with the money that was poured into one scene in MI7 where Tom
by dreamer7 4y ago
At some point, AI will replace stuntmen with completely synthesized action scenes. Contrast that with the money that was poured into one scene in MI7 where Tom Cruise rides a bike off a cliff.
If AI could make us feel the same way as Tom Cruise himself jumping off a cliff, isn't it a no-brainer to use it?
If we stretch this scenario to the ultimate - Generating an entire movie using AI, it doesn't feel as fun, as real. But I wonder if it is the future
- yuy910616 4y agoThis generative AI stuff always makes me feel like my world is just a dynamically generated RPG or MMORPG.
- suby 4y agoSame. I don't actually believe this to be true, but I have had the thought that as I get older there's been a clear progression of tech being created which could convincingly create a fake reality. The thought being that at the culmination of my life will be the perfection of this tech followed by the universe revealing that my existence has been an elaborate generative hallucination all along.
- altruios 4y ago> my existence has been an elaborate generative hallucination all along. Consider the fact that there is no objective 'blue', there is a wavelength with a particular frequency measured in hertz, but the wavelength is not the same thing as what we know to be color... See, what happens is: a photon (oscillating at a frequency) hits a rod or cone in your eye tuned to detect that frequency of light: which travels down the optic nerve as an electro-chemical signal (no more photons involved at all at this point). Which eventually turns into a chemical reaction in your brain. That chemical reaction is 'blue' to us - not the photon that never reaches this point nor even the original frequency: just our brain's translated chemical signal; it's interpretation of 'blue'. Blue is your brain hallucinating what it thinks that frequency actually is... blue is a "guess" at reality... So yes, your brain IS generating an elaborate hallucination after all.
- yuy910616 4y agoi mean...wow. that's a bit mind blowing
- strogonoff 4y agoWhat makes you believe those photons and chemicals and the brain exist when you have no access to any of that and all of the information about it comes from your mind (the only thing guaranteed to exist)?
- dwallin 4y agoEven more so than that, “blue” is not even attempting to “guess” at reality. A more accurate statement is that the concept of “blue” is a useful abstraction for the goals of the vision system of your brain.
- CatWChainsaw 4y agoThat's just simulation theory with extra steps.
- ggambetta 4y agoI don't know. Part of the appeal of Tom Cruise doing it for real is that you know it's real. They emphasize that in the behind the scenes materials. The experience is vastly different to mostly-CGI movies like Marvel.
- noduerme 4y agoAgreed; watching Marvel movies these days feels like watching someone else play a video game. Less interesting, actually.
- krapp 4y agoBut the Marvel movies make more money and sell more merchandise, which is really all that matters.
- VanTheBrand 4y agoDon’t be so sure! Top Gun Maverick made more money than any marvel movie last year.
- krapp 4y agoTIL they made a sequel to Top Gun...
- ggambetta 4y agoToday? Go watch it, it might still be in cinemas, it's a fantastic movie. (Disclaimer: I'm a big fan of Tom Cruise's movies, especially the Mission:Impossible franchise)
- CuriouslyC 4y agoThey also didn't field a marquee marvel title, and people are suffering a bit from marvel fatigue at any rate.
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- luxuryballs 4y agoMaybe once it can also make Tom Cruise feel like he rode that bike off a cliff.
- croes 4y agoBut not today. I still prefer the practical effects of films like Mad Max Fury Road over most full CGI FX movies.
- GiorgioG 4y agoOr even further back in time: I watched "The Thing" (1982) the other day and the practical effects were far more frightening than any CGI monsters I've ever seen.
- rqtwteye 4y ago" Contrast that with the money that was poured into one scene in MI7 where Tom Cruise rides a bike off a cliff." I don't know much about stunt stuff but I don't really understand the fuzz about this. Taking a bike down a ramp and then pulling a parachute doesn't seem to be that crazy compared to a lot of other stuff people are doing.
- CatWChainsaw 4y agoThis is the new "you will own nothing and be happy." Your world is synthetic and you will like it.