Researchers trained an AI to create Flintstones cartoons

Machines are quickly bridging the creative gap between human and artificial intelligence. Last year we were amazed by Nvidia's AI's ability to generate realistic images of fake people, but yesterday a group of researchers unveiled one capable of making original videos of "The Flintstones" from text descriptions. "The Flintstones," for those who aren't familiar, was a popular US prime-time cartoon about a "modern stone-age family." Which makes it a bit ironic that the first new "scenes" the show has had in over 50 years were created by an artificial intelligence. Researchers working at The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and The University of Washington developed the AI, called Composition, Retrieval and Fusion Network (Craft).