This New Trailer for 'Morgan' Was Created Using Artificial Intelligence

The act of artificially intelligent beings taking over complex tasks typically reserved for human hands is no longer a fantasy of Hollywood fiction. In collaboration with 20th Century Fox, scientists at IBM Research have created the first-ever "cognitive movie trailer" for the upcoming science fiction thriller Morgan by utilizing experimental Watson application program interfaces -- in simpler terms, they used a complicated technological system which analyzed hundreds of horror movie trailers to gather information on scenes that keep audiences on-edge. After sifting through Morgan's finished cut, the program selected its 10 most appealing moments, which a (human) editor then crafted into a trailer for the movie. Directed by Ridley Scott's son, Luke, and starring Kate Mara, Paul Giamatti, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michelle Yeoh, and Brian Cox, Morgan revolves around a risk-management consultant who must decide whether to terminate a self-sufficient, humanesque robot after it grows increasingly hostile. In July, Greenlight Essentials' Jack Zhang released a sneak peek at his new project, Impossible Things, an indie horror flick he wrote with help from an augmented intelligence software tool, which also crafted the film's trailer.