
The baby in the machine: How filmmakers are reimagining cinema with AI | IBM
On a film set in Lower Manhattan, actress Audrey Corsa held nothing in her arms. The baby she appeared to cradle was not on set. It would be created later by an artificial intelligence model trained on hundreds of photographs and one woman’s first memory. That memory was the moment of her own birth.
The film is Ancestra, a new short directed by Eliza McNitt, and it features a simulated version of McNitt herself, modeled after photographs taken by her father on the day she was born. These are th...