EDITORIAL
Creative writing
...Using the program InferKit, the YouTube channel Blue Bantha Milk Co. trained an A.I. bot to write Star Wars: Episode X and it is surprisingly good. After hours of assiduously editing what the program generated and running it back through, the bot finally spits out a full script for the next installment in the beloved franchise, titled A New Light Rises, and the result is absolutely uncanny. Blue Bantha Milk Co. will even be live-streaming a virtual table read of the script. With A.I. systems evolving rapidly and continuously improving their ability to generate the written word, scripts written by A.I. is a trend in which writers could be replaced partially, or maybe even entirely, by artificial intelligence (Courtesy Adam Bentz)...
Have a safe week and a pleasant Friday night at the movies,
Jean Constant
2021 Oscars Will Broadcast Live From Multiple Locations, Including Dolby Theatre. The Academy’s pursuit of celebrating cinema this year has been paramount. This year had one of the greatest numbers of films ever submitted for consideration. The Oscars already revealed that the documentary feature submissions increased from 170 to 238 submissions, a record-breaking number, while the international feature category had 93 countries submit for a chance at the gold statuette, also a historic high. And after the Academy unveiled its Oscars shortlist in nine categories, revealing the final 15 countries in contention, a beautiful swath of diversity was seen among the listed films, including three films from Asia, three from Latin America and two from Africa, outnumbering the number of films from Europe for the first time in Oscars history. Steven Soderbergh, Stacey Sher and Jesse Collins will produce the telecast...
