What if text prompts enabled anyone to make a blockbuster movie, or even an entire box-set’s worth of TV? That is the promise of AI. This technology could one day prove as transformative to the movie business as sound, colour, or even the camera itself. Generative AI can already make videos in seconds which would normally take a visual-effects artist days to create. However it has yet to master photo-realistic video. The people at the forefront of this tech say it is only a matter of time.
00:29 How does AI-generated video work?
02:43 How long until feature films are generated by AI?
03:57 Can AI-generated videos be photorealistic?
04:36 How revolutionary is AI in film?
05:05 A dystopian threat to jobs or democratisation of the industry?
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Art made by artificial intelligence is developing a style of its own: https://econ.st/40n7Sj4
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How AI image-generators work: https://econ.st/47dOw1T
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A battle royal is brewing over copyright and AI: https://econ.st/3Qilzef
Disney’s troubles show how technology has changed the business of culture: https://econ.st/46SvmPq
,News,News & Politics,dSvc6GCtC5o,UC0p5jTq6Xx_DosDFxVXnWaQ, Politics,Society, channel_UC0p5jTq6Xx_DosDFxVXnWaQ, video_dSvc6GCtC5o,America feared that letting Ukraine use US weapons (https://www.economist.com/topics/ukraine?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) to attack far-off targets in Russia would escalate the conflict. Why has President Joe Biden finally changed his mind? Markets soared (https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/11/14/whats-about-to-hit-the-world-economy?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) when Donald Trump was elected, but the longer-term impact of Trumponomics may be less positive (9:42). And why airships are back (https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/10/30/airships-may-finally-prove-useful-for-transporting-cargo?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) in our skies (18:12).
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,1,Why are two old, unpopular men the main candidates for the world’s most demanding job? It’s the question John Prideaux, The Economist’s US editor, gets asked the most. And the answer lies in the peculiar politics of the baby boomers.
Since 1992, every American president bar one has been a white man born in the 1940s. That run looks likely to span 36 years - not far off the age of the median American. This cohort was born with aces in their pockets. Their parents defeated Nazism and won the cold war. They hit the jobs market at an unmatched period of wealth creation. They have benefitted from giant leaps in technology, and in racial and gender equality.
And yet, their last act in politics sees the two main parties accusing each other of wrecking American democracy. As the boomers near the end of their political journey, John Prideaux sets out to make sense of their inheritance and their legacy.
Launching July 2024.
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,1,On July 4th Britain will have a general election, one in which is widely expected to result in dramatic losses for the ruling Conservative party. If so, it would bring to an end 14 years of Tory rule. It’s been a turbulent period; the twin catastrophes of Brexit and Covid, set to the grinding and gloomy mood music of the 2008 financial crash. The Economist’s Andy Miller travels up and down the country, to the towns and cities shaped by these events, to get a sense of how Britain is feeling.
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,1,America’s president had one primary task at last night’s debate: to close down speculation about his mental faculties. It went so poorly (https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/06/28/joe-bidens-horrific-debate-performance-casts-his-entire-candidacy-into-doubt?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) his whole campaign is now in doubt. Tentative results from a newish instrument give tantalising hints (https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/06/19/the-dominant-model-of-the-universe-is-creaking?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) that the leading theory on the universe’s makeup might need reworking entirely (10:20). And bullfighting moves from literal arenas to the political arena (https://www.economist.com/culture/2024/05/29/bullfighting-is-under-attack?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) (18:40).
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,1,On October 7th Hamas fighters launched a surprise attack on Israel and slaughtered more than 1,300 people, mostly civilians. What is Hamas and how powerful is it?
00:00 - What is Hamas?
00:55 - Hamas’s control of Gaza
01:18 - Growth of Hamas military capacity
01:32 - The latest attack on Israel
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Hamas’s attack was the bloodiest in Israel’s history: https://econ.st/3ts3qD3
A short history of Gaza: https://econ.st/408EJYR
As war looms Israel calls for 1.1m people to evacuate northern Gaza: https://econ.st/3RZF1za
Israel faces the danger of fighting on a second front: https://econ.st/3twmikn
Will Israel’s agony and retribution end in chaos or stability?: https://econ.st/48RGPQI
Netanyahu wages war and fights for his own survival: https://econ.st/3Q0xDku
Hamas’s attack was an Israeli intelligence failure on multiple fronts: https://econ.st/3Q9Rgrp
Brutal urban warfare awaits Israel’s army in Gaza: https://econ.st/3tw0vJJ
Hamas’s carnage upends Joe Biden’s plans for the Middle East: https://econ.st/46HDHov
Israeli hostages now face a terrifying ordeal: https://econ.st/3RP81ta
The lessons from Hamas’s assault on Israel: https://econ.st/46zasEA
A Hamas leader refuses to admit his group planned to kill civilians: https://econ.st/45xJgoy
By Invitation: The crisis shows the failure of Israeli policy towards Palestinians, says Shlomo Brom: https://econ.st/3FhRzKl
By Invitation: The Palestinian cause has been damaged by factionalism, argues a former prime minister: https://econ.st/3ZQ1ArS
By Invitation: Nimrod Novik on the false premises and failure of vision that led to the Hamas attacks: https://econ.st/3LWaXAx
1843: People in Gaza hate the night. All they can see are explosions: https://econ.st/3PTkObo
1843: “It’s an Anne Frank situation”: an Israeli professor hides from Hamas: https://econ.st/3RO3Qh9
Watch: Israel and the Palestinians: a century of conflict: https://econ.st/3ZS68hf
Listen: With no electricity, limited internet and dwindling food supplies, what is life like in Gaza?: https://econ.st/3PRoaM9
Listen: An interview with a senior political leader of Hamas: https://econ.st/3rMPIua
Listen: Gaza is now under siege. What else is Israel planning?: https://econ.st/3Qf8aVN
Listen: Israel has suffered the biggest terror attack in its history. How will it respond?: https://econ.st/45jCVNj
,1,What if text prompts enabled anyone to make a blockbuster movie, or even an entire box-set’s worth of TV? That is the promise of AI. This technology could one day prove as transformative to the movie business as sound, colour, or even the camera itself. Generative AI can already make videos in seconds which would normally take a visual-effects artist days to create. However it has yet to master photo-realistic video. The people at the forefront of this tech say it is only a matter of time.
00:29 How does AI-generated video work?
02:43 How long until feature films are generated by AI?
03:57 Can AI-generated videos be photorealistic?
04:36 How revolutionary is AI in film?
05:05 A dystopian threat to jobs or democratisation of the industry?
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3MkUK8f
Art made by artificial intelligence is developing a style of its own: https://econ.st/40n7Sj4
Watch our film about how AI is changing the entertainment industry: link to previous N&N AI and entertainment film
How AI image-generators work: https://econ.st/47dOw1T
Watch more of our Now & Next series https://econ.st/47ezw3E
A battle royal is brewing over copyright and AI: https://econ.st/3Qilzef
Disney’s troubles show how technology has changed the business of culture: https://econ.st/46SvmPq
