AI movie trailer created by AI

A new movie that depicts AI making problems for humanity was released this week. While it's certainly not the first such movie--Hollywood has been profiting off of our reservations about AI for decades--this was the first movie to have a trailer created by AI. In keeping with the theme of the film in which a corporate risk management consultant must make the difficult decision of whether or not to kill an artificially intelligent being, IBM decided that they would consult their deep learning machine, Watson, to create the perfect trailer for the film. Machine learning is a branch of artificial intelligence in which machines are programmed to analyze massive amounts of input to search for patterns. To teach Watson to create a trailer for a horror movie, IBM had it "watch" 100 classic horror movies so it could understand what horror is, and what components in a film triggers a fear response in humans.