A.I. A.I. by an A.I.
For NaNoGenMo 2016 I had an idea to attempt to generate an novelisation of the film A.I. Artificial Intelligence using image captioning AI on stills from the movie.
The cover of the resulting paper copy of the novel. Method I ripped the DVD of “A.I. Artificial Intelligence”. Then extracted 5036 stills from the file (frame rate of 0.6 per second) with Avconv. Using https://github.com/karpathy/neuraltalk2 I ran two passes over the images, first with sample_max set to 1, which produces more accurate captions (and more repetition), then with sample_max set to 0, which is less accurate but more “imaginative”.
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