How will AI re-shape the movie experience?

May 4 – Star Wars Day – has come and gone again, but as always, offered a chance to have some fun with data and analytics. Mary Osborne used text analytics to show Luke Skywalker's emotional journey across the movies, from young and idealistic to older and more jaded, but with rather more humility. Data engineering, advanced analytics, and artificial intelligence in particular, now offer new ways to examine subjects new and old to gain new insights. Artificial intelligence has long been a staple subject in science fiction, from Asimov's robot stories through to 2016's Morgan. But could AI move behind the camera, perhaps as screenplay writer?