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In George Orwell's 1984, there is a description of a "kaliedescope" machine that remixes plot elements, etc from books to create media for the "proles." Basically, technology is at the point where we can do basically that for news stories. I wonder how far down the road TV shows and comic books could be? (I'm guessing 10 years, to get to the point where the first news synthesis by AI was a few years ago.)

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Isn't this what most modern movies are, only the remixing isn't automated?

I wonder what a script for an action movie would look like if it was just based off of statistics of all the previous action movies. Probably watchable.

Isn't this what most modern movies are, only the remixing isn't automated?

That was part of George Orwell's point.

I wonder what a script for an action movie would look like if it was just based off of statistics of all the previous action movies. Probably watchable.

We could probably get some great comedy out of it!

Netflix is sort of already doing this, producing films based on your content and metrics of what you search for and watch. They aren't automating the actual movie bits yet, but it's progress.

> I wonder what a script for an action movie would look like if it was just based off of statistics of all the previous action movies...

Have you seen the Transformers movies?

> ...Probably watchable.

See above.

Brave New World had auto-generated pop-music which is essentially what modern pop-music is

Do you think Deep Learning can solve being charming and sexy? Maybe the general public will like auto-generated people better than the organic ones. (In this case, "organic" is technically correct, as it can be synonymous with "carbon based.")

EDIT: Come to think of it, just how hard would it be to use Deep Learning to create superhuman virtual Instagram models? I think we're closer to that than to self driving cars.

Come to think of it again, what about virtual Logan Pauls?

The world doesn't need any more Logan Pauls

The world has 10000's of them. The problem is that the quality control is off.

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