{"id":86481,"date":"2023-04-12T08:54:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T12:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=86481"},"modified":"2023-04-12T11:15:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T15:15:26","slug":"our-world-shaken-not-stirred-synthetic-entertainment-hybrid-social-experiences-syncing-ourselves-with-apps-and-more-belsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2023\/04\/12\/our-world-shaken-not-stirred-synthetic-entertainment-hybrid-social-experiences-syncing-ourselves-with-apps-and-more-belsky\/","title":{"rendered":"Our World Shaken, Not Stirred: Synthetic entertainment, hybrid social experiences, syncing ourselves with apps, and more. [Belsky]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Before we get to Scott Belsky&#8217;s article, here&#8217;s an interesting\/related item from Tobi Lutke:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I just clued in how insane text2vid will get soon. As crazy as this sounds, we will be able to generate movies from just minor prompts and the path there is pretty clear.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 tobi lutke (@tobi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tobi\/status\/1641010421493637122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.implications.com\/p\/our-world-shaken-not-stirred-synthetic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Our World Shaken, Not Stirred: Synthetic entertainment, hybrid social experiences, syncing ourselves with apps, and more.<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from implications.com by Scott Belsky<br \/>\n<em>Things will get weird. And exciting.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Recent advances in technology will\u00a0<s>stir<\/s>\u00a0shake the pot of culture and our day-to-day experiences. Examples? A new era of synthetic entertainment will emerge, online social dynamics will become \u201chybrid experiences\u201d where AI personas are equal players, and we will sync ourselves with applications as opposed to using applications.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"header-with-anchor-widget\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>A new era of synthetic entertainment will emerge as the world\u2019s video archives &#8211; as well as actors\u2019 bodies and voices &#8211; will be used to train models. Expect sequels made without actor participation, a new era of ai-outfitted creative economy participants, a deluge of imaginative media that would have been cost prohibitive, and copyright wars and legislation.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Unauthorized sequels, spin-offs, some amazing stuff, and a legal dumpster fire<\/strong>: Now lets shift beyond Hollywood to the fast-growing long tail of prosumer-made entertainment. This is where entirely new genres of entertainment will emerge including the unauthorized sequels and spinoffs that I expect we will start seeing.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Also relevant\/see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bryanalexander.org\/digitalstorytelling\/digital-storytelling-with-generative-ai-notes-on-the-appearance-of-aicinema\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Digital storytelling with generative AI: notes on the appearance of #AICinema<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from bryanalexander.org by Bryan Alexander<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This is how I viewed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2023\/04\/artists-astound-with-ai-generated-film-stills-from-a-parallel-universe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a fascinating article<\/a>\u00a0about the so-called #AICinema movement.\u00a0\u00a0Benj Edwards\u00a0describes this nascent current and interviews one of its practitioners,\u00a0Julie Wieland.\u00a0 It\u2019s a great example of people creating small stories using tech \u2013 in this case, generative AI, specifically the image creator Midjourney.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Bryan links to:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2023\/04\/artists-astound-with-ai-generated-film-stills-from-a-parallel-universe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Artists astound with AI-generated film stills from a parallel universe<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from arstechnica.com by Benj Edwards<br \/>\n<em>A Q&amp;A with &#8220;synthographer&#8221; Julie Wieland on the #aicinema movement.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2023\/04\/artists-astound-with-ai-generated-film-stills-from-a-parallel-universe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/wieland_hero_2-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"An AI-generated image from an #aicinema still series called Vinyl Vengeance by Julie Wieland, created using Midjourney.\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>How will text-to-video impact the Learning and Development world? Teaching and learning? Those people communicating within communities of practice? Those creating presentations and\/or offering webinars?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong> Hmmm&#8230;should be interesting!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: Before we get to Scott Belsky&#8217;s article, here&#8217;s an interesting\/related item from Tobi Lutke: I just clued in how insane text2vid will get soon. As crazy as this sounds, we will be able to generate movies from just minor prompts and the path there is pretty clear. \u2014 tobi lutke (@tobi) March 29, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,354,356,174,86,209,208,433,498,260,297,112,200,271,8,18,9,143,434,32,215,210,848,141,237,533,37,3,391,419,180,119,482,124,46,7,838,285,79,408,23,239,133,309,311,196,855,155,157,50,195,118,321,214,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-av-audiovisual","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-career-development","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-cloud-based-computing-apps","category-communications","category-communities-of-practice","category-content-development-aggregation-repositories","category-copyright-ownership-nfts","category-corporate-business-world","category-corporate-universities","category-creativity","category-digital-audio","category-digital-storytelling","category-digital-video","category-disruption","category-dramatheater","category-education-technology","category-educational-games-serious-games","category-emerging-technologies","category-emotion","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-entrepreneurship","category-experimentation","category-future","category-higher-education","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-instructional-design","category-intelligent-systems","category-intelligent-tutoring","category-k-12-related","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-legislation-legislatures","category-liberal-arts","category-mediafilm","category-multimedia","category-new-business-models","category-online-media","category-platforms","category-presentations","category-productivity-tips-and-tricks","category-skills","category-story","category-storytelling","category-teaching-learning","category-tools","category-training-corporate-universities","category-united-states","category-universities","category-vision-possibilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86481"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86535,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86481\/revisions\/86535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}