AQUAMAN 2 Director James Wan Says He Pitched Sequel As "An Outright Buddy Comedy;" New Still Released

@NinnesMBC - I really enjoyed that thank you for sharing.

@NinnesMBC - You're welcome. =)

@bkmeijer1 @NinnesMBC @MCUKnight11 - As someone who works with Machine Learning/"AI" on a daily basis (like, I'm tweaking a new Computer Vision model while I'm writing this) I come to know a pretty good amount about this topic and I agree with bkmeijer1 (sorry if you've already heard my spiel on this dude (which I'm pretty sure you have)). Generative "AI" is just another development tool and isn't as much of a threat as people (especially the media) are making it out to be, in my opinion because like any other advanced tool it requires someone who is skilled in using it to be able to do something useful with it and not just turn out crap. Which is why the new field of "Prompt Engineering" has emerged and companies are actively hiring for, as it's something of an art form in and of itself.

Each of these Gen "AI" tools (i.e. Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, AWS Bedrock, ChatGPT, etc.) has its own prompt language and even slight variations in the prompts that you provide the tool can have considerable effects on what it produces. Because at the end of the day, these tools aren't true AI (which is why I use the quotes). They can't think or act for themselves and only do what you tell them to do, which is why they're just advanced Machine Learning algorithms (I won't go into how they actually work here but if anyone's interested I'll be glad to explain it elsewhere as I'm pretty deep into this stuff).

So ultimately like bkmeijer1 dais they're just tools which, if you know how to use them, can really help get your projects going much faster, but at the end of the day still require human interaction to get them going in the right direction and then refine their output. I tend to think of them like Photoshop or Maya: There's a lot you can do with them, they really help with what you're trying to create, it takes a strong skillet to know how to use them, and there was a time before them when artists had to do everything by hand.

One last point as an example that doesn't get made very often because I think that software developers don't really complain about it as much is that Gen "AI" is also being used to write software. So developers like bkmeijer1 and myself can just prompt a code generation tool to "write a program that builds a CV model which detects swimming pools in aerial imagery" and it will kick out some code to do that which should "work". Now, how well that model performs will depend on the specifics of the prompt I give it and even then it's just a starting point because what it will give me won't be very specific to my particular application (and the code will probably have some bugs that will need to be worked out) BUT it will save me a lot of time and typing (and we're generally pretty lazy as it is 😉).

@MCUKnight11 - dark world was more serious compared to regnaorock comedy start to fisnish

@Forthas - so buddy comedies are a Marbel thing now?

@Forthas - if Marvel did it more than just with Thor and Loki, I might agree. For now, that's the only example I can think of. And one instance doesn't make a rule