Some two years ago we published an article that tried to answer the question of when will we see the world's first AI movie director? In this article I stated that "It seems certain that the first AI directed movie will be either a cartoon or animated film." Well, two years on, it was brought to my attention, rather embarrassingly, that some people feel that by the time I even wrote that article that we had already seen the first AI directed film. I noted in that article that the "first ever AI generated script that was turned into a movie called Sunspring (2016)", a real milestone for artificial intelligence. Well, it turns out that it was an evolution of the same artificial intelligence system that, only two years later in 2018, did in fact'direct' a movie.

Apple employs their new Artificial Intelligence (AI) director Ruslan Salakhutdinov, a leading expert in the field. He is tasked to ensure that Siri and other related products will take advantage of all the relevant breakthroughs released by academic experts from AI research. He is scheduled to discuss his research for the MIT Technology Review conference at EmTech MIT 2016 to be held this week. Salakhutdinov is an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the Machine Learning Department, working in the field of statistical machine learning. His research revolves around deep learning and a series of very large neural networks which allows the computer to learn and carry out complex tasks by absorbing extensive amounts of patterns and training examples.