IBM Watson Has Crafted A Trailer For A Horror Movie About AI

Yes, you read that right: an actual artificial intelligence created the advertisement for a movie about terrifying AI. To create the film, the company used experimental Watson APIs and machine learning techniques to comb through hundreds of movie trailers for horror and thrillers. "Let's send Watson to film school," as John Smith, an IBM fellow who helped work on the project, explained. The team behind Watson helped the AI learn how movie trailers work, and then analyzed every scene in the human-made movie to pick the best ones for the trailer. The AI was able to detect which of the movie scenes were cheerful and uplifting, versus which ones were sad or scary.