AI Fashion & Design July, 2024

The Digital Hollywood AI Summer Summit

Monday, July 22 - Thursday, July 25, 2024

The Defining Event: The Future of Entertainment, Media & Technology

A Virtual Event • Registration is Free to All Attendees - An Expected Audience of 12,000

• Speakers Note: Some Sessions will be Taped Prior to the Event - Please check with your moderator

The Evening Keynote Roundtables

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024

8:00 PM - 8:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

Brands & Agencies as Global Studios: The Medium is the Message

The Medium is the Message has truly outpaced the growth and influence of our traditional media powers. While the “Super Bowl” was indeed the most watched TV event of the year, the everyday reach of “Social Networks,” plus YouTube channels and others in “absolute numbers” far outstrip our traditional media system. One might conclude that in determining consumer reach and engagement, the creative combination of Global Brands, Global Agencies powered across the Social Networks, Websites and Mobile enablers, with the added possibilities of AI, XR, AR and Live Events create what we might consider as deployable Global Studios. Such Global Studios might be “Ad Hoc” or transitory, but they represent a paradigm shift. It is not an exaggeration to suggest that the consumer reach of this “Modern Media Plan” will consistently reach into the hundreds of Millions.

Session II:

Generative AI and the Transformation of Entertainment, Virtual Humans & Creativity

When Generative AI arrived in full force in early 2023, there was no way to understand that in a little more than a year, the 2^nd and 3^rd iterations of Gen AI software would arrive that would clearly represent the arrival of a substantive first generation “AI Cinematic Experience.” Providing greater clarity and detail to the atmospherics and to the individual characters, enabling fluid movement, emotion, replicating human-like skin tones on visuals that had been digitally enhanced and upscaled, that compare favorably with the attributes of traditional Hollywood close-ups. The quality of AI voice and tonal modulation had been wildly improved nearing the levels needed for serious consideration. Our Roundtable Guests represent many decades of “Hollywood and Technology Innovation” and we are honored to hear from them and to learn from their vast experience in traditional Hollywood production, as they build new “Creative Teams” in developing the new platforms for “Storytelling,” “Human Character Development,” in what will clearly become the next Generation of Hollywood.

The Evening Keynote Roundtables

Wednesday, July 24th, 2024

9:00 PM - 10:00 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Virtual Humans: The AI Intelligence Machine: From Virtual Humans in Hollywood, the AI Companion & Conversational AI Co-Pilot to Humanoid Robot

Some industry experts say, “2024 is Going to be the Year of the AI Intelligence Machine.” Virtual Humans started some years ago with Benjamin Button and Ex Machina and has evolved into amazing GenAI, Cinematic production and Virtual Influencers. But it doesn’t stop there. The “Virtual Human” category is now manifesting itself in human to machine interaction. We know that at this moment you’re “Tsk-Tsking,” we’re exaggerating, and maybe we are, but have you spent a few hours in a back and forth with a text-based AI-Copilot? If you haven’t, you should. Engage a Co-Pilot on any subject that you have deep knowledge, and you will be amazed, assuming you are engaged with an up-to-date powerful AI. Your conversation will be amazingly good. And if you can “Train the System,” ie. help develop further informational input, your AI may well begin to make your head spin. And this goes for the development of the physical Humanoid Robot as well. 2024 may well be the year of the Virtual Human AI.

The Complete Conference Agenda (The Daytime Events)

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024

Noon – 12:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

Architects of AI and Entertainment: VFX/CGI – XR – AR – Film & Branding to Live Events

AI has been an evolving resource for Hollywood creatives for the past twenty years, going all the way back to “Jurassic Park” and “T2: Judgment Day.” You might call it a “Superpower.” AI in the hands of the “Architects of Hollywood” has been like giving a magic wand to a magician. From Feature Films, Live Experiences, Games and Advertising, the power to imagine has just been expanded exponentially. And an almost equal power has been given to the desktops of millions of the next generation of “Pixar and Walt Disney Imagineers” working at home worldwide.

Session II:

Fashion Forward: The Immersive and Beautiful Internet Experience

The fashion and beauty retail experience is changing and the change is emerging before our eyes. Beautiful design is not new, but the “Immersive Experience,” of beautiful design on all platforms for the consumer, the impact of AI on real-time presentation and customer service as a high-end experience, from in-person to smartphone is incrementally being revolutionized. The pleasure and detail of the “In-Store High-End Customer Experience,” in the very near-future will be replicated and transformed as a mass culture “Digital Experience” online. We are pleased to share the concepts and vision of the transformation here, on this panel today.

1 PM – 1:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session II:

Gen AI Cinema & Hollywood Video: A Director, Producer & Critic’s Roundtable

The entertainment industry has a new category of film to discuss and analyze, one that did not exist prior to 2023. It is almost remarkable that “Generative AI Cinema” is now a category of “Creativity” that we must begin to take seriously. All through the year 2022 AI Image Generators began to improve and in 2023 the images began to move. It would make Thomas Edison and Auguste and Louis Lumière proud. And the practitioners of “Gen AI Cinema,” the directors and technologists, today’s AI storytellers are creating amazing short films and video experiments. Our roundtable today will bring together a group of “Creatives” that are breaking the ground for what will surely be the “Hollywood of the 21^st Century.”

Session IV:

The Complexity of AI & Art – Imagination of the Human + Machine: Media Arts - Cinematic Arts - Fashion Design

What does it mean when an artificial intelligence can dream? What does it mean to create art fabricated by neural networks rather than solely human hands and hearts. What does our future hold? Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, is a magnificent and devastating portrait of grandeur and privilege of Europe of the 1700s and in equal measure, we can look to the magnificent treasure of Antoni Gaudi’s architecture of Barcelona, and both might be thought of as progenitors of the AI Art we aspire to today. While Generative AI art is like opening a door to a limitless supply of “Digital Art,” this new world of art by “Human and Machine” will be no less distinct and intriguing than any era of art which has come before.

2 PM – 2:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

The Digital Brand & Advertising Experience: AI + 3D + XR + Holography + Metaverse

The combination of visual and electronic platforms and digital creativity have completely transformed the role of global brands in public consciousness. Or perhaps it’s the other way around; global brands have exposed technology and creativity to the world. Either way, between AI, 3D, XR and Spatial Realities, a universe of magical experiences and creative environments are capturing the imagination of 100s of Millions of viewers on mobile, video as well as experiential platforms. We are reaching a next level; we may be breaking the “Creative Sound Barrier.”

3 PM – 3:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session II:

The Digital Brand & Advertising Experience, Part II: AI + 3D + XR + Holography + Metaverse

Session III:

The Art of the “Sphere:” An Exposition of Vision & Experience - A Discussion of Immense Creativity

The designers of “The Sphere” have produced an “Immersive Experience” that is at once magical and thrilling. Audience members announce their plans to attend, post photos of the “Sphere” upon arrival and gush about the experience in long posts on “Social Media.” Is there any “Entertainment Experience” in our lifetime to compare? In concert with The Stones or Taylor Swift? Perhaps better if The Stones or Taylor booked into the “Sphere.” The Sphere has splurged $2.3B on special cameras and 164,000 isolated speakers to create this incredible display and that doesn’t count the “Exosphere,” the video-powered shell that is now an “Iconic Las Vegas Landmark.” In this session we will discuss the amazing “Sphere.”

4 PM – 4:40 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

The Best in Virtual Humans and Synths: Influencers, Performers & Companions

Call them Synths; call them Virtual Human Celebrities, influencers and performers going by names such as Audrey Hepburn Digital or AI J.Lo in an ad campaign to fully virtual stars Lil Miquela, Lu do Magalu, Barbi, Guggimon, Any Malu or Milla Sofia. According to her Instagram account, Lil Miquela is a half-Spanish, half-Brazilian 19 year old Robot living in LA with 2.6m followers. Lu do Magalu, another Brazilian influencer has 6.8M followers. She is used by Brazilian retailer, “Magazine Luiza” for various campaigns and has partnered with big brands, including Adidas, McDonald's and Red Bull. There are AI Internet Girlfriend platforms named Replika, Candy AI and DreamGF and Virtual Singers and Performers are in the pipeline with the backing of major organizations. What are we to make of this phenomenon? “Barbi” afterall started out as a “Children’s Doll” over a half century ago and now as a “Movie Star” and “Virtual Human” has become a “Global Phenomenon.” With that in mind, perhaps the “Cultural Narrative” of “Synths” and “Virtual Humans as Celebrities” has yet to be decided.

Session IV:

AI & the Design of Randomness: Unlocking the Inner Jackson Pollock

Our first thought was to call this panel, “AI: Inside the Black Box of the Imagination.” Artificial Intelligence, together with Machine Learning have opened the door to a relationship with a “Human Creator,” someone we might call an “Artist,” and the result is an exploration of the imagination that has never been seen before. The result is unique. Nevertheless, some critics, Jerry Saltz of New York Magazine’s Vulture among them, have articulated a clear disdain for this new and evolving art form. While others, the curators at MOMA in NYC to their credit, have honored AI’s best known artistic innovator, Rafik Anadol with a one-man show. Many have referred to AI Art as the “Design of Randomness,” referring to it’s kinship to Jackson Pollock. In this session we will explore some of those thoughts.

5:00 PM – 5:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session II:

Prompt Engineers – Mastering the Art of Cinematic AI Design & Music Composition

Each of us has faced down the “Empty Prompt Bar” trying to communicate with the AI, hoping to tease out an unusual photographic image or develop a dramatic scene in a film script through a series of ping pong like prompts and replies, like personal letters to an unknown companion with the hope of reaching a higher state of consciousness. The role of “Prompt Master” represents a novel creative discipline, perhaps not an art form, but something approaching a digital choreographer. There must always be a goal, a cinematic visual experience, a classical musical score, perhaps a string quartet. The job requires that we constantly produce a quality result, but if we can engage with a brilliant “Co-Pilot,” the creative process may be that much more pleasurable. But learning to communicate with the “Unknown Creative Mind,” to speak to it in a private code that will produce a fully professional and even artistic experience. That may be the work of an artist, the work of the “Prompt Master.”

Wednesday, July 24^th, 2024

Noon – 12:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session IV:

Virtual Human Video: The Online Retail & Consumer Facing Experience: The Impact of Advanced Intelligence and Technology

The integration of advanced intelligence and technology into retail and consumer-facing experiences is revolutionizing the way we shop, interact with brands and their online support, and make purchasing decisions. As virtual humans and AI-powered systems become more sophisticated, they're transforming customer service, product recommendations, and even in-store navigation. This panel will explore the current state of the art in virtual human technology and its impact on the retail and complex online interaction, as well as examine future trends and challenges in this rapidly evolving field.

1 PM – 1:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session II:

Designing the Digital Fashion & Beauty Retail Experience: Social Media, AI/XR & Internet

The world of Fashion and Beauty will be first among the global brands to embrace technology, applying it into their dramatic “Live Runway Experiences,” transforming showrooms into XR media experiences, creating sensational social media campaigns that will “Break the Net.” It’s only a matter of time before a “Virtual Human Fashion Queen” becomes a “Global Celebrity,” and that “Global Sensation” will perform and dominate on every platform, including “The Runway,” when magically the “Digital will be Transformed” into “The Living.” The “Retail Experience” will live on every platform; website and Apps, in Live Retail as well as “Brand in Travel” and the idea of “Brand as Art” may well turn out to more powerful in eyes of the public than any other of the brand experiences.

Session III:

The AI Breakthrough: Establishing a New Art Form - Algorithmic, Poetic Computation and Digital Art

What does it mean for art when creativity intersects unbounded computation? New frontiers emerge. As algorithms dance with imagination, revolutionary artifacts are the result. We witness math-derived beauty, code-constructed consciousness, silicon muses. The origins of these ideas trace to pioneers like John Whitney animating to electronic beats in 1960s Los Angeles or Frieder Nake algorithmically auto-drawing alongside Andy Warhol's Pop Art ascent. And today, we must look to and thank Zach Lieberman of MIT, for his seminal contribution to the field of algorithmic, poetic computation, and digital experiences. Today, there are an unlimited number of artists and adventurers experimenting in algorithmic and poetic computation. In this session we honor this magnificent tradition.

2 PM – 2:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session II:

Digital & AI Fashion and Beauty: The Designer + Virtual Humans + The Runway + Retail Experience
The fashion industry, which has always been a global and cultural trend setter, today with the explosive power and merger of the "AI, Design and Media Technologies," a fashion brand can dominate simultaneously “IRL" (In Real Life) and equally on “Social Media” as a form of entertainment. The Fashion Industry, uniquely among the creative arts, can innovate “Style, Personality and Identity” in AI and Spatial Environments like no others. In time, fashion brands may even establish “Virtual and Iconic Models & Avatars” and establish them as “Global Icons” and those future “Virtual Humans” might also perform as Musical Celebrities or “Reside in their own Metaverse.” The future of the AI Fashion will be nothing short of “Intriguing.”

Session III:

Virtual Humans & AI: Advanced Design + Intelligence = Unique Levels of Complexity

In this session we will address the Intelligence and Design functions in the development of Virtual Humans. While other panels will focus on “Virtual Humans as Performers and Internet Personalities,” in this session we will explore the more profound issues of “Computer Intelligence” and “The Machine’s” ability to mimic human emotion and personality, verbal and vocal expression and respond in conversational interaction. Once a “Virtual Human” becomes “Conversant” as a mature human might, the role of this technology will quickly find a way into our daily life, from Virtual Human Co-Pilot as Educator, Colleague at work to companion in research and creative endeavors. The possibilities are quite frankly, limitless.

3 PM – 3:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session II:

AI Art, Design and Language: A Vocabulary of Syntax and Exactitude

The partnership between the designer or artist and the AI has a goal, to convert the concept into something real, from the blank page to the design, from the imagination to the architectural structure. To successfully navigate with an Artificial Intelligence, a machine, the artist must develop a vocabulary of subtlety. The artist is inventing a new language of art and design, a vocabulary suited to the “Machine” of “Syntax and Exactitude.” Well-known Italian architect and computational designer, Arturo Tedeschi has often described his process using this descriptive language. In this session, we will explore the techniques and imagery that Tedeschi speaks of.

Session III:

Digital Design, Branding, Fashion & Retail: The Innovation Experience

Design and fashion have forever defined the cutting edge of cultural innovation and now with the explosion of “Digital Platforms” and consumer demand, the “World of Retail” has finally merged with “The Innovation Experience.” Every major brand and retailer is adapting to the reality of “Consumer Engagement + Immersive Technologies = The Retail Transformation.” From the multi-faceted ad campaigns to the online retail, including the In-Store experience, it’s a holistic strategy of design, technology, and engagement. In this session, we welcome the industry leaders.

4 PM – 4:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

AI & Magnificent Fashion & Beauty: An Exploration of the Imagination – Retail, Runway, Advertising and Virtual Human

“Fashion and Beauty Design” is always on the cutting edge of cultural identity and with the addition of AI tools, the level of innovation has exploded. In this session, we will further explore those levels of innovation, in imagery ranging from “Couture, Runway and Indie Collections” to advertising, retail experience, social media campaign, out-of-home campaigns as well as nationwide TV. Art and design are at the core of the fashion and beauty product as well as through its creative brand and advertising strategies and in this panel we hope to get first-hand insight from the creators themselves.

5 PM – 5:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

AI-XR: The Spatial Experience - Exploring Next Level Human Interaction

While AI has become the convenient “Umbrella Concept” under which all other computer platforms can be best understood, with the release of Apple Vision Pro and Meta’s industry leading Quest 2, the conversation has centered around VR, Gaming and the latest buzzword, Spatial Computing. For industry cognoscente, the goal has always been “Immersion,” platform agnostic, mobile, computer, gaming, in any environment, on any device. Apple refers to its AVP introduction as “Spatial Computing” and the developers of XR, VR and AR experiences will likely be pleased to embrace this descriptive note. With the power of AI, advanced connectivity through “The Cloud” and with continued device innovation, we will all be pleased to welcome the “Era of Spatial Computing.”

Session III:

Virtual Human Chatbots: State of the Art – Next Level Consciousness + Advanced Visuals

The movies “2001,” “Data from Star Trek,” “Her” and “Ex Machina” have created a public expectation, for what “Virtual Human Technology” is understood to be. Is this level of AI consciousness out of reach? Since the mass exposure of Generative AI, to literally more than one billion computer users in the past year, a level of comfort and dependency has been readily embraced, and the anticipation of an enhanced immersive experience would surely be welcomed. AIs are already employed for “Deep Research,” as “Medical Co-Pilots,” as “Conversational AI Companions,” “Virtual Performers or Celebrities” and “Company Spokespersons.” In fact, there may be no limit to the role of AI Co-Pilots in our everyday lives. The manifestation of a fully realized “Virtual Human” as a Humanoid Robot or like “Her,” as a synthetic persona will likely be a welcome colleague. In this session we will see demos of the current “Best in Class.”

Thursday, July 25^th, 2024

Noon – 12:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

IMO – The Most Important AI Cinematic Movie Shorts in the past 6 Months

The “In My Opinion Roundtable” will bring to life the daily and sometimes hourly ongoing discussions of AI, technology and creativity as represented on “Media,” and “Social Media” platforms. And it often the first thing the AI and creative industries read to jumpstart the day. Across the board, independent technologists and academics, artists and creatives, journalists and opinion writers create the “Lifeblood Discussion” in all matters of AI, creativity, art and tech innovation. In this, the first roundtable of the day, the topic is Cinematic AI, Innovative Movies, Music Videos, Video Experiments and Special Effects. The speakers participating in this roundtable will not be unlike the viewers in our virtual audience, they will all be participants in the daily conversation at the core of what we might call, the “IMO In My Opinion” global community.

Session II:

The AI Breakthrough: Establishing a New Art Form - Algorithmic, Poetic Computation and Digital Art

Session: IV:

Multimodal AI Creation – Deep Dive on 3D – Taking NeRF to the Limits

Among the goals of our conference attendees is to create “Cinematic Images,” to upscale a 2D image and reimagine it as a 3D Images in metaverse environment and to then make it move in a cinematic frame. We are entering an age of imaging moving images from text commands, from transforming an iPhone photo and transforming it into a Cinematic two-minute film. Much of this is known as NeRF, Neural Radiance Field technology and it is at the core of all the primary image transformation technologies being developed by NVIDIA, Unity, Unreal Engine, Google, Meta and Runway. Volumetric 3D images can be created from artistic sketches and those images can then be transformed into cinematic experiences. In this session we will probe the minds of the geek philosophers in our roundtable.

1 – 1:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

IMO – The Most Dynamic in “AI & Technology: The 24/7 AI Tech News Feed” - From Updates to Analysis

The weekend of OpenAI’s November 2023 meltdown had a special meaning for everyone in the technology industry. It ranked somewhere between D-Day, the World Series and the Thanksgiving week that followed. While the ultimate meaning of the great technology feast of Thanksgiving 2023 may still be unclear, what was perfectly clear was the level of excitement generated on social media. Every person worth their salt in the industry was glued to their “Feed,” reading real-time updates from the “Principal Players Themselves!” tech movie stars each and every one. And “Keyboard Tech Visionaries,” were providing play-by-play on the social media platforms. OpenAI almost broke the Internet that weekend, because it secretly spoke to us. It spoke to us because AI is the most dominant new technology since the Internet boom in 1999 and because the social media platforms provide a massive community to codify our dreams.

Session II:

The Apple Vision Pro - Spatial AI: Advanced Awareness - Let’s Go There

In this session, we will not be debating the pros and cons of the Apple Vision Pro. YouTube has already served up hundreds of them. AVP has opened the door to “Spatial Computing” with a clarity that has never existed before. Will AVP be a gateway to “Immersive Entertainment?” Yes it will. Will AVP open the door to “Creative Productivity?” Yes it will. Will this version of AVP be the gateway to lighter and less expensive footprints. Yes it will. Will it become a preferred communications device? Yes it will. All this and more, especially for the installed base of over 2 Billion users worldwide of Apple phone or computer users. The AVP is like a down payment on the future of computing and communication.

Session III:

Virtual Human Exploration: Nuance & Emotion • Vocal Expression • Facial Movements – Sentiment - Hyper-Realistic Synthesis of Prose

Can we as humans create emotional bonds with virtual or synthetic beings? That is a good question that we cannot answer, at least we have not experienced it quite yet. We have experienced it through movies such as “Her” and “Blade Runner.” And today we can experience conversational AI with Chat Bots, which are becoming more advanced in their ability to explore complex philosophical and emotional questions, which can be exceedingly helpful in academic, work related and even through creative composition. AI developers are not far away from not only imagining but creating the virtual human, in video form and soon, as a “Humanoid Robot.” It is about nuance and emotion, vocal expression and sentiment and synthesis of prose. Don’t be surprised when a door opens, and in it will be a brother from another planet.

Session: IV:

AI 3D Simulations, Character Behavior and Story Generation: Exploring GANs and Character-Aware Neural Language Models

Can AI technology make movies? If we begin with that question and search for answers, we will find that the progress is not only being made, in some weeks, the progress appears to be a breakthrough. Compare the “Will Smith Spaghetti” video of a year ago with the OpenAI’s recent “Sora” synthetic video creations and one might call that an “OMG” moment, the “Aha Moment” in AI and video creation. How long, how detailed, how dramatic, and nuanced must the prompt be to generate the first five minutes of a short film? And, how many seconds, minutes or hours will it take for the AI to generate the “Cinematic Experience?” In this session, we will open a discussion about AI, 3D simulations and story generation. What is the journey to AI and storytelling?

2 – 2:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

IMO: “In My Opinion” AI & Technology on YouTube: A Major Media Category of its Own

While YouTube may be the platform for movies, music, sports, and deep dives into every facet of humanity, it is overwhelmingly the home of everything technology, from fifteen-minute product reviews to hour-long podcasts on the most complex and groundbreaking innovation in Artificial Intelligence. YouTube has replaced the influence of tech writers at newspapers and magazines. In fact, YouTube also functions as a “University Program” in technology. Hundreds of thousands of YouTube viewers have “Learned to Code” on YouTube. One day there will be an Academy Awards for Tech Influencers or Tech Podcasters, or Deep Dive Tech Lecturers or Technology Artists. For today, we are pleased to welcome a group of renown technology experts and innovators who regularly post on YouTube.

Session II:

Prompt as Code – The Interface of Natural Human Language with the Complexity of Algorithms

Let’s face down the paradox at hand. Creative human language encourages subtlety and ambiguity, the intuitive and poetic which would seem to be at odds with the strictly structured demands of code and computer programming. How do we square the circle of lyrical expression and the joy in crafting inventive narrative flows with the current state of AI? After all, it is in the beauty of language that we communicate our deepest feelings which would appear at odds with the unambiguous logic and structured sequences of AI. Perhaps the paradox which exists today, in time, with further development and refinement of AI and ML will someday disappear. It is likely that the interface of language and algorithm will be bridged and make way for a next generation of creative and code.

Session: III:

A Demo: AI Artists and Photographers “Train” their own “Themed Model Sets”

Here’s something for artists and photographers to consider, training your own “AI Neural Network” with the digitized library of your life’s artistic work. In the end, an AI could explore that universe of imagery, the sum-total of your imagination, and create new and unique visual or audio and visual experiences. What if the Andy Warhol collection of sketches, interviews, silk screens, movies, video, and other Warhol artifacts were “Trained” in a Neural Network Architecture, a Warhol GAN, so that the AI would internalize the nuances, colors, stylistic flourishes and idiosyncratic ideas and subtleties in Warhol's style. Over time and through some months or years of trial and error, of artistic and other unique data set experimentation, a new AI Language of Andy Warhol would begin to emerge. It might be very different from the Warhol we know, but it also might be equally unique.

3 – 3:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

IMO – "In My Opinion:" Breakthroughs in Generative AI, LLMs, Virtual Humans or Diffusion Technology

The “AI Newsfeeds” are like a technology racetrack with the thoroughbreds always out pacing the “Newsfeed Mids,” the second-raters who cop the headlines or videos for cheap “Clicks.” But it is always the “Techie Purebreds” who “lay down the law” and take over the conversation. It’s what separates the “Pros” from the “Posers.” Establishing the winners on the “Tech” racetrack when an audience of hundreds of thousands a day are trying to determine the breaking news on AIs, LLMs, Virtual Humans or Diffusion Technology. The tech industry is the most competitive and probably the most transparent as well. To the winners go the spoils or the win goes to players with the “First Mover Advantage.” It’s hard to say what’s true, which is why up-to-the-minute “Long or Short Takes” off social-media can sometimes be the difference maker.

Session II:

The Hollywood Trajectory: The Generative AI Video Timeline: 2023 – 2024 – 2025 – 2026

How fast will AI take over Hollywood? That’s the question. After YouTube; After VFX and the Nightmare of Sequels, After Netflix, Amazon and cord cutting; Remember, Napster Killed the Music Industry!! What’s next? Is AI the Machine that’s going to “Eat Hollywood.” We are already beginning to understand the impact of AI on Screenwriting, AI and Virtual Charters and AI’s impact on VFX. Video Editing is clearly in the eye of the AI storm and the role of extras not to mention complicated backgrounds that will magically appear through the power of AI. In this session, we will speculate on the impact of AI on Hollywood and try to understand the impact and growth of “The AI Blob.” How soon will entire movies, TV shows and Ads being fully produced by a giant AI. 2026? 2028? What will Hollywood look like in 2030?

Session: III:

IMO – “In My Opinion:” The AI Artists & Computational Designers, Critics & Academics – The Passion is on Social Media

AI has “Rung the Starting Bell,” in the cultural embrace of Digital Art. It has given license for “Artistic Creators” and the cultural powers that be to embrace the unique tools which include the ideas of Computational Art together with the greater impact of machine learning together with artificial intelligence. This has been years in the making. The outcry surrounding “Photoshop” in the 1990s produced a howl, as if a “Foreign Religious Force” had invaded the “Design District of New York,” it was so long ago. And the arrival of the NFT was nearly as disconcerting. But somehow, perhaps it is because of the obvious “Power of AI,” the imagery that the AIs produce is somehow creating its own sense of inevitability. In this session will be bring together a group of “Creatives” to discuss the arrival of a new art form and perhaps a new consciousness.

4 – 4:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

The AI Creativity Co-Pilot: Miles, Kubrick, Coltrane, Scorsese & David Bowie by your Side

AI may not be able to create a symphony, inventing the arc of a significant film project or improvise sophisticated jazz, but it can be “Trained” to the entire film, music and artistic libraries and associated materials, including film, video, text and music of all the great artists in history. In addition, it can be “Trained” to understand how to break down screenplay elements, character development and emotional range, scene by scene, film by film, so that at the end of the many months long process of “Training” on the works of Stanley Kubrick and John Coltrane, one might have successfully created an AI that can approximate and converse in the “Language” of the masters. The AI might not be able to create a product that looks or feels like a work produced by one of the greats, but for a creative professional, such a “Co-Pilot” might become an indispensable aide and remarkable addition to the creative process.

5 – 5:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session: I

IMO – The Best in Humor and Satire, Deep Fake Music, Girlfriends, Avatars or other AI Meme Phenomena this Past Year

Question does an “AI Girlfriend” count as a “Deep Fake,” because she’s definitely a “Virtual Human,” but she’s also convincing and a perfect replica of a famous movie star. Swipe right for sure. And is the Meme version of Donald Trump, closer to the real one than the original? Or did Donald Trump actually perform in a “Bollywood Musical” and dance with a cast of hundreds? In this session, we’ll try to smoke out what’s real and who actually faked Frank Sinatra smoothy singing down and dirty rap lyrics. AI has opened the door to satire that is sending folks around the bend. Did the Beatles ever sing “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” and did Paul Simon ever cover “Strawberry Fields.” It was just announced that the “Bohemian Rhapsody, Celebrity AI Cover Show” has more views on TikTok than Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero.” Is that real? But in the end, is AI humor ultimately any different from “The Bachelorette” or “Bachelor in Paradise?”

Session II:

AI & the Visual Art of the Imagination: ‘Creating Worlds that Never Were’ (Carl Sagan)

As Carl Sagan once eloquently stated, there are unseen worlds, born from the fusion of human creativity and artificial intelligence, that actually have the power to transform our understanding of art and reality itself. It is one of the joys of innovation, the result of our culture’s passage into “Brave New Worlds” of advanced technology and the desire to explore. Through computational art as well as generative models, artists are experiencing and creating art through new eyes, reaching into what one might call the “Uncharted Territory of the Imagination.” In this session, we will explore the symbiotic relationship between artist and machine and probe a universe of new possibilities, where the boundaries of what is possible in some ways have never been imagined before.

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