Adobe and Stanford just taught AI to edit videos -- with impressive results

Just one minute of video typically takes several hours of editing -- but Stanford and Adobe researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) program that partially automates the editing process, while still giving the user creative control over the final result. The program starts by organizing all of the footage, which is often from multiple takes and camera angles. Those clips are matched to the script, so it's easy to find several video options for each line of dialogue. The program then works to recognize exactly what is inside those clips. Using facial recognition alongside emotion recognition and other computational imaging effects, the program determines what is in each frame.