Animations Made Entirely By Computers ? Algorithm Generates Cartoon Faces, Shows The Future | Singularity Hub
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On the surface, Weird Faces may seem like just another cool media project that mashes together technology and art. But considering the relative ease with which the human face can not only be procedurally defined but imbued with a breadth of qualities in simple characterizations, it doesn’t take much to see how close we are to true digital storytelling, that is, entertainment entirely generated by computers.
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And if you think that computers can’t tell stories or be funny, wait a few years. In time, they’ll become a reality too.
News-writing software from Narrative Science or software that can write romance novels from EdgeMaven Media hint at the beginnings of digital storytelling. Story structure is not only well established in creative writing classes all over, but these theories have been around since the heyday of Ancient Greek theater.
Google has recently developed an algorithm that ranks the funniest videos on YouTube based on feedback in comments, and a joint study from UCLA and Hewlett-Packard is creating an algorithm to predict which tweets on Twitter will be the most popular. Using the big data that is now prevalent, how soon will an algorithm be able to predict whether something is going to be funny or not?
