This mini horror movie of only 4:23 minutes has aroused heated discussion and dissemination across the Internet. Up to now, the number of views of the movie on YouTube has exceeded 1 million, which is much higher than the number of views of other videos on its channel.
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However, the direction of everyone’s discussion may be a bit “off the track”.
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Obviously it is a horror movie, and everyone’s reaction after watching it is: How come the laughs are so dense!
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What exactly does this horror movie created by robots say?
Mr. Puzzles looks like a puppet wearing a horror mask and riding a three-wheeled wheelbarrow. It is essentially a soulless riddle-making machine, who likes to use cruel methods to punish victims who answer wrong questions. In the movie, Mr. Puzzles kidnapped a girl named Jennifer. Jennifer’s setting is a beautiful, but sympathetic girl who works in a big factory. Mr. Puzzles asked her to answer a series of nonsensical riddles, and she was violently punished for every wrong answer.
Watching the entire movie, the most impressive thing is its illogically absurd setting and unexpected laughter.
Mr. Puzzles is mentioned in the movie, describing his mask as “Made in hell or Texas”. Texans say they can’t laugh anymore.
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The detective who came to rescue Jennifer was a drunk man who fell over when he appeared on the scene. He is described as “Mostly Whiskey” in the movie.
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When Jennifer answered the wrong question and Mr. Puzzles punished her, he couldn’t help but complain, “Did you grab the coffin discount coupon on Double 11?”
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What everyone talks about most is that after the detective rescued Jennifer, he expressed sadness that her colleague was killed by Mr. Puzzles. Jennifer even responded: “It doesn’t matter, the company is very big”.
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This four-and-a-half-minute mini movie has a lot of horror elements stacked, but with a lot of laughter, it looks like a sand sculpture video made by a netizen who is addicted to the Internet and loves horror movies. The whole movie has nothing to do with horror movies except for Mr. Puzzles’ demon setting and bloody and violent scenes.
However, netizens did not demand it by the standards of a mature movie. The ability to create laughable dialogues and plots is already an advancement in artificial intelligence.
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To create this mini horror movie, Netflix collaborated with the famous screenwriter and comedian Keaton Patti. Why did you find Patti to work with? Because he already has “experience” in training robots.
In 2020, Patti allowed robots to spend 1,000 hours learning and understanding a large number of books and media resources. Later, robots created and published a book called “I Forced a Bot to Write This Book: AI Meets BS (I forced the robot to write This: AI meets BS)” book. The evaluation of the book on the Internet is quite high, and many people think it is more than expected after reading it.
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In this film cooperation, Netflix and Patti have raised demands on the robots and arranged for the robots to watch and learn 400,000 hours of horror movies!
Facts have proved that the robots who were “forced” to watch thousands of horror movies were crazy to pay tribute to the classic American horror movies in their creations, turning this new creation into a collection of horror movies.
We can find in the movies “Jennifer’s Body” (Jennifer’s body), “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and “I Know What You Did Last Summer” (I know what you did last summer) Quotes from “A Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Friday the 13th” (Friday the 13th) scenes.
For audiences who are very familiar with these movies, the appearance of these elements will increase the interest of watching movies. But without background knowledge, many plots and dialogues in the movie are a bit confusing.
Compared with the understanding of horror elements, robots seem to have a better interpretation of the real life conditions of contemporary people. In addition to the “big company” mentioned above, there is also the dumbfounding “My dad will spend money to redeem me, but my mom won’t”:
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Netizens exclaimed, what the truth is!
There is also a somewhat philosophical “he was drunk but troubled by soberness”:
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Judging from the overall quality of this mini horror movie, for the time being, it can only stay at the level of recreational videos. Screenwriters and creators do not have to worry about being robbed of jobs by artificial intelligence for the time being.
| The bumpy movie road of artificial intelligence
In fact, this is not the first time Netflix has tried to use artificial intelligence to create film and television scripts. In its YouTube channel Netflix Is A Joke, there is a special series called “Netflix By Bots”, which contains 5 videos, all of which are completely scripted by robots.
The styles of these films are similar to this mini horror movie, with a duration of about 3-5 minutes, stacking typical elements of different types of films, plus unexpected humor. These include holiday movies, love stories, and even talk shows.
The first film written by a robot was released in early December 2020 and is a Christmas day movie. At that time, it was heatedly discussed by netizens because of its witty and nonsensical style.
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It seems that Netflix has also tasted the sweetness of traffic brought by such movies, and it can’t stop as it goes on this road.
The combination of film creation and AI is a direction that has been tried in the film and television industry.
The first attempt by a robot to create a movie can be traced back to 2016. IBM’s artificial intelligence system Watson created a movie trailer for Fox’s science fiction movie “Morgan”. After studying 100 horror movie trailers, Watson completed his Virgo in 24 hours. Although the work still needs manual polishing, it has successfully reduced the production cycle of the trailer from 10 days to 1 month to 1 day.
However, if you want AI to independently create popular and popular movies, there are still many problems to overcome.
The first is the language barrier. It can also be seen from Netflix’s mini-movies that there is still much room for improvement in the contextual connection and the fluency of language in the works of robot screenwriters. Human natural language is complex and changeable, which is very challenging for AI that is good at finding rules. In addition, the language is open source. We can create unlimited creations for it, such as the endless network terms that emerge every year.
Social and cultural background is also an important factor in understanding language. For example, after experiencing the anti-epidemic in Wuhan in early 2020, we have empathy for movies with such themes, but it is difficult for robot screenwriters to understand and create.
Secondly, creativity is a unique attribute of human beings. For example, in the mini horror movie produced by Netflix this time, the robot stacks the horror elements that it understands into the script, but after all, it is still the “four differences” of the existing works pieced together. Our pursuit of artistic creation is to transcend existing works and forms and refresh the aesthetic existence. AI under the existing technology does not yet have this ability.
Although it is not certain whether the robots of the future can conquer the heights of art, it seems that creators can maintain their confidence for the time being.
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Text｜Jenna Editor｜Lianzi
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