9/12/2025 - Exploring AI Filmmaking Through RunwayML's Contest

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0:01 You ready? Sit. Sit. U sit.
0:07 [Music]
0:15 [Applause]
0:16 [Music]
0:19 [Applause]
0:33 [Music]
0:46 What's going on? Why you so ramy? Why
0:49 you so ramy champ? Happy Friday night
0:52 date night everybody. What's going down?
0:55 What's shaking? What's happening? What's
0:57 happening in them near their parts?
1:01 [Music]
1:15 [Applause]
1:16 Woohoo!
1:19 [Music]
1:26 Woohoo!
1:28 [Music]
1:34 [Applause]
1:40 [Applause]
1:46 [Music]
1:57 [Applause]
2:05 Can a westerly direction.
2:09 This car is my train.
2:14 I've been driving. I've been wondering
2:18 what it is I'm running from again.
2:23 Feel like an idiot old man
2:27 holding on to 29.
2:31 And up ahead on that horizon
2:35 is California land.
2:39 [Music]
2:45 You done singing, champion. That's it.
2:49 Up ahead, a truck scaring a wide load.
2:53 Pre house cut in half.
2:57 Cute little front door and two windows.
2:59 My love,
3:01 make sure that a cry I should laugh.
3:04 [Music]
3:06 See, I broke a home up myself once.
3:10 As I stumbled to that door,
3:14 I read a note by the dawn of the light
3:18 said, "Don't you come around here
3:23 anymore."
3:24 [Music]
3:26 Well, I've had enough
3:30 of this freedom.
3:34 Never was good with decision.
3:36 [Applause]
3:38 At least that's what I've been told.
3:42 [Music]
3:51 Woohoo!
3:55 Woo!
3:57 [Music]
4:40 Oh man. All right,
4:42 let's keep going. Let's keep going here.
4:45 going. What going? What happening? What
4:47 happening, people?
4:50 What is shaking? What's going down?
4:51 Happy Friday night, date night.
4:55 Um,
5:00 what do you want to talk about tonight?
5:02 What's on the agenda tonight? I do not
5:04 know. I uh I often have a plan.
5:12 I more often than not have a plan that
5:16 came to me 30 minutes before the show.
5:19 Tonight,
5:21 I got nothing.
5:23 I got nothing. So, why don't we do what
5:25 you want to do? We can go look at I
5:27 figure one thing we could do is we go
5:29 not look at Notebook LM. Are you a
5:32 developer or more of an advocate for AI?
5:34 Well, I'm not. Well, I don't know. I am
5:36 a uh I'm a CEO of a tech company. So I'm
5:40 a developer in the sense that I have
5:42 technology that I've built and run that
5:45 company for almost 14 years. Um I've
5:49 been doing this channel for uh going on
5:53 three years now. Three years. Yeah. Um,
5:57 I started this this channel
6:00 the week after ChatGBT launched and I so
6:06 a little bit about my background. I was
6:08 there for the early days of the
6:10 worldwide web. I started one of the
6:11 first digital agencies in 1994
6:14 company called agency.com and we ended
6:17 up building a lot of the websites for
6:18 the Fortune 500. So I have been through
6:21 one of these
6:23 tech's going to change everything in the
6:25 world cycles before and so when chat GPT
6:29 came out I'm like ah this does for AI
6:32 and machine learning what the worldwide
6:34 web did for the internet which is
6:36 basically democratizes it. So what this
6:38 channel is about is not about building
6:40 AI systems. It's not about weights and
6:44 embeddings and mathematics. It is about
6:47 now that these tools are available to
6:49 the 98.5%
6:51 of us that are not engineers, what do we
6:54 do with it? What's the impact? What's
6:56 the future of work look like? Um how do
7:00 you keep up with it?
7:02 What do you do?
7:05 Right? If if this is truly going to
7:08 disrupt everything and and give us all
7:11 non-employment, what's the next job look
7:14 like? And what are the skills required
7:16 to to be one of the ones that survives
7:18 the the rounds of of cut offs or
7:21 layoffs? I don't know.
7:25 Reg to cover Netscape.
7:31 Oh man. Side hustle Mimi. It's about
7:34 [ __ ] around and find out. But AI, but
7:37 with AI, that's a pretty good one.
7:38 That's it. I mean, this channel is about
7:41 just playing. It's about being in the
7:43 conversation. It's about some new thing
7:45 comes out. Let's go look at it. Let's go
7:47 kick the tires of it. Let's figure out
7:48 where the boundaries of this AI game
7:51 are. And what are we going to do? What
7:55 are we going to do with it?
7:57 Um,
8:01 it's about understanding the the the
8:04 nuances between
8:08 someone can output something with AI
8:10 easily and excellent work.
8:13 And those are not the same thing. And
8:16 how do you get to excellent work when
8:18 you have tools that can spit out [ __ ]
8:20 that looks like excellent work but
8:22 likely isn't?
8:24 Um, and that takes some that takes some
8:28 guidance. That takes some skill. That
8:29 takes some
8:34 ambition. Takes a strong point of view.
8:38 Uh,
8:40 Um,
8:43 remember when you had to build different
8:44 websites for different browsers? I do. I
8:47 I I'll tell you, I I remember
8:52 the the first Netscape browser would not
8:54 it would center text, but it wouldn't
8:56 center images. So, we actually built a a
9:00 whole series of invisible single pixel
9:03 high images to scooch text to the center
9:06 of the page. That's how early I was
9:08 there. The center tag didn't work.
9:21 Oh man. All right. I say we go back to
9:24 links.
9:31 We could watch an AI short. Wasn't there
9:35 some
9:36 Oh, the uh what was it? The runway
9:40 the runway contest. Are all those are
9:42 all those videos out?
9:47 Go look at that. That might be fun.
10:04 want to create today.
10:08 Why would they not have that on their
10:10 homepage? Runway
10:13 left. If anyone has any questions, feel
10:15 free to pop pop them in there. I'm happy
10:17 to answer any questions other than what
10:22 are your qualifications, which we have
10:24 established. I've got one. This is Adam
10:26 and Eve.
10:49 I don't know where. Oh, here you go.
10:51 Runway.com. Runwayml.com48.
10:55 All right, let's go try that.
11:11 not runwayml.com.
11:13 Or wait, did I spell it wrong? Yes.
11:17 Ah, here we go. Watch the full
11:20 collection of winning films in the LF
11:22 edition.
11:25 Yeah, let's go watch some films. Are
11:27 these going to spin up new windows every
11:29 time I do it? They probably are. That's
11:30 okay.
11:32 All right.
11:36 like VMware did for virtualization but
11:38 with the ability to create an app
11:40 ecosystem. Very similar.
11:44 If I were looking to target a market for
11:47 AI dominance, it would be an operating
11:49 system for AI.
11:52 Um, yeah, there's some folks trying to
11:55 do that right now.
12:01 There's some folks trying to do that
12:02 right now.
12:04 Um,
12:08 all right. Let me share
12:16 share this tab instead.
12:24 We're going to go watch some movies
12:32 and I'm going to give you a caveat here.
12:36 I'm gonna if I get bored with the movie
12:39 or if I have comments on it, I'm going
12:40 to stop it.
12:43 So, this might be frustrating.
12:49 Oh, man. All right. So, here we go. So
12:52 this is um this is runway ML has a new
12:57 feature called ALF that allows you to
13:00 basically change things within an
13:02 environment and and you know keep the
13:06 same basic action of a of a clip but
13:08 switch out characters, switch out the
13:11 background, switch out the environment,
13:12 things like that. So here's the Grand
13:15 Prix winner. Do we want to start with
13:16 that or we want to go to the bottom 10
13:19 first edition winners?
13:23 Oh, that was from October 2023. Second
13:25 edition, third edition, fourth edition.
13:31 So, are these the left winners?
13:35 Yeah.
13:37 So, we'll start at the bottom and work
13:39 our way up.
13:59 [Music]
14:06 Thank you, dish frog.
14:56 [Music]
15:00 Heat. Heat.
15:14 [Music]
15:23 [Music]
15:38 [Music]
16:11 this
16:14 [Music]
16:25 Okay, I think I get the message of this
16:26 one's boring the [ __ ] out of me.
16:30 There's also like weird There's like
16:32 weird stuff in it. Like weird um weird
16:36 AI artifacts. All right, let's go to the
16:38 next one.
16:40 All right, hang on. Kyle, as your
16:42 producer, if if we're gonna if we're
16:44 going to bail on something, you can't
16:46 bail on something 30 seconds before the
16:47 end of the movie.
16:48 >> I can
16:50 I can
16:52 I I just didn't care. I'm like, okay, so
16:56 they're getting more and more plastic.
16:58 They're they're going in to get more and
16:59 more beautiful, and they're getting more
17:00 and more
17:01 >> probably a message at the end.
17:04 >> Yeah, I don't care. I don't care.
17:10 He you got me on a low tolerance night.
17:14 Like I don't know. It just I don't know.
17:17 Wasn't clear.
17:37 [Music]
17:38 I sing Clement.
17:40 [Music]
17:55 [Music]
18:00 Foreigulch.
18:17 [Music]
18:31 No, that's mama.
18:43 me.
18:54 Yes,
19:19 [Music]
19:29 Cena.
19:41 Okay.
19:55 She killed him.
19:58 [Music]
20:06 [Applause]
20:27 Oh, that was her.
20:39 for
20:52 this.
21:02 [Music]
21:16 That one wasn't bad.
21:19 I mean, that one at least had a distinct
21:21 style. It was clearly done by people
21:23 that knew editing and storytelling. It's
21:25 told a story.
21:29 He was a bad man. But she didn't want
21:32 the daughter to throw away the movies.
21:35 Popcorn, please.
21:40 Oh, I said goodbye mouse. Adios, Raton.
21:43 Oh, that's funny. That's hilarious.
21:45 [Laughter]
21:47 Adios. Goodbye mouse. That's awesome.
21:50 Okay. All right. Um All right. That one
21:53 was not bad. It's good.
22:06 First time in therapy.
22:09 >> Yeah.
22:11 >> So, what brings you here?
22:13 >> What brings me here?
22:16 It all began
22:18 when I was prompted.
22:21 >> White tiger with a pimp outfit. I used
22:23 to show up every day waiting,
22:26 but they never picked me.
22:27 >> A kitten who looks like strawberry.
22:30 >> Kitten looks like strawberry, please.
22:32 >> Sometimes I even wish there was a cat.
22:34 Cats always get chosen.
22:39 [Music]
22:41 >> Oh, K.
22:44 A man with a earthshaped head. You're
22:48 up.
22:48 >> Finally, someone called my name.
22:54 The noodle who just lost the bat.
22:57 >> I couldn't believe it. It was fast,
22:59 scary, but I felt like a star.
23:02 >> You did it. You did it.
23:04 >> Be the best version of yourself.
23:06 >> Smile. Be confident.
23:08 >> Be the best version of yourself.
23:09 >> Stop running.
23:10 >> I did everything by the book.
23:12 >> Don't forget to smile.
23:16 And when I got there, I saw my creators
23:19 looking at me for the screen, and I
23:21 tried to look open, not me. He looks
23:24 super needy.
23:25 >> Totally.
23:26 >> This one is much better.
23:28 >> He has a masculine atmosphere.
23:30 >> Let's take him.
23:32 >> No.
23:34 >> And then in a split second,
23:37 they chose the guy next to me, and I
23:42 >> I was nothing.
23:43 >> Mhm. I had to stand there and watch them
23:47 upscaling him and animating him. It was
23:50 devastating.
23:51 >> That sounds very difficult.
23:53 >> Nobody wants me.
23:54 >> Mhm.
23:55 >> I don't matter.
23:56 >> Life,
23:58 even an artificial one, could be cruel
24:01 sometimes.
24:03 >> Um,
24:05 >> but what about you? What do you think
24:08 about yourself?
24:11 Have you tried to look inwards?
24:14 [Music]
24:32 >> Wow,
24:34 this is so beautiful.
24:36 >> Oh, our time is up. Wow.
24:39 >> I can see that you're truly emotional
24:41 about this.
24:42 >> Really rock my wall.
24:43 >> Mhm. Okay. So, that will be 30,000
24:47 credits. And um I wrote that I will see
24:50 you here again.
24:53 >> Yes, I think you will.
24:59 [Music]
25:02 >> Fascinating.
25:05 Fascinating.
25:06 Let's see.
25:08 >> Wait, you got to finish that one. There
25:09 was There was a little There was a
25:11 little fun thing at the end.
25:13 >> Yeah.
25:15 [Music]
25:30 >> That was it. The the tech stuff.
25:32 >> Oh,
25:33 >> yeah. I know they must have put
25:34 something at the end on on the other
25:36 version that I saw, but I love I love
25:38 the prompt guy at the end or that the
25:41 guy that's saying all the prompts. Um
25:44 the version I had had him doing a couple
25:46 of other outtakes at the end.
25:47 >> Oh, that's funny.
25:50 >> All right.
25:56 >> Yes,
25:57 I'm gone. Not suddenly, more like a
26:01 photograph slowly losing its colors. One
26:04 day I was here and then I wasn't.
26:09 I remember when the house had no walls.
26:12 We built entire worlds from nothing.
26:16 Turned silence into secret languages.
26:19 Became anyone we wanted to be. Back
26:22 then, you and I were everything we
26:25 needed.
26:27 And then we grew.
26:29 Our stories grew with us. The games
26:32 became bigger. The worlds we built more
26:35 complex.
26:36 There were days of laughter so loud I
26:38 thought they'd never end. I believed
26:41 we'd stay like that forever.
26:45 But forever is shorter than it seems.
26:49 One day you found other worlds, other
26:52 games, other friends.
26:54 >> Aw. I told myself I didn't mind, but I
26:57 did. I felt myself drifting. I wanted
27:01 you back. I tried to hold on maybe too
27:03 tightly.
27:04 >> It's Toy Story.
27:05 >> I thought I was losing you, but maybe I
27:09 was losing me.
27:11 Days grew quieter, rooms grew bigger,
27:13 and somehow I became small. Until one
27:17 morning, I realized I had vanished. For
27:21 the longest time, I thought disappearing
27:24 was failure.
27:26 But I understand now. I wasn't meant to
27:29 stay. I was meant to walk with you until
27:32 you could walk alone. Everything I was
27:36 lives in you.
27:38 Thank you
27:40 for imagining me.
27:45 That's beautiful. Beautiful
27:49 little Toy Story derivative, but good.
27:52 Pretty
28:01 [Applause]
28:02 [Laughter]
28:12 [Applause]
28:15 That's
28:22 [Applause]
28:27 picking on you, Brandon.
28:50 That is it.
29:00 [Music]
29:08 [Applause]
29:16 [Music]
29:27 [Applause]
29:37 [Music]
29:51 [Music]
30:02 I don't know, William.
30:15 [Music]
30:16 [Applause]
30:18 Unbelievable.
30:21 [Music]
30:31 Hey.
30:35 [Music]
30:43 All right. I have no [ __ ] idea.
30:49 Whatever that was whatever. Um, but it
30:52 did it did have at at least they chose a
30:56 visual style until they cut away to the
30:59 man and the woman in the dirty bathwater
31:02 and it was a completely different style.
31:04 Um,
31:07 Mr. It asks, "What app is this?" Well,
31:09 the Oh, wait. Let's see. Side hustle
31:12 mimi.
31:13 We got a one yawn review from Kyle on
31:16 this one. Yeah, that one that one didn't
31:17 really have a story. I mean, maybe it
31:20 did. Had to be French.
31:25 Two and a half yawns. Um,
31:28 it um
31:30 what was I going to say about Oh. Oh,
31:32 what tool is it? This was runway MLF's
31:35 feature. So you had to use runway MLF
31:38 their sort of scene swapping character
31:40 swapping feature. Um and I don't know
31:44 these images were probably made either
31:46 in runway or in midjourney or something
31:47 like that. So,
31:51 >> but listen, I mean, the thing all of
31:53 these have in common so far is that
31:55 they, you know, they're
32:00 they're they're wellcrafted
32:04 storytelling, right? Sometimes the
32:06 stories suck, but
32:17 >> there is no monster.
32:22 [Music]
32:33 for
32:37 [Music]
32:54 [Music]
33:02 Fore!
33:05 [Music]
33:23 [Music]
33:28 Foreign! Foreign!
33:30 for
33:32 [Music]
33:45 [Music]
34:07 Okay, this one's good.
34:19 [Music]
34:29 [Music]
34:40 [Music]
34:48 All right. You lost me when the monster
34:50 was in the bathroom looking up at his
34:52 package. But
34:57 That was pretty good. All right, where
34:59 are we in the in the mix here? We saw
35:01 those two. So, we got the void,
35:06 we got to the void signal, and then we
35:08 have the Grand Prix winner.
35:11 All right.
35:13 And then we then we'll talk about it. I
35:14 think these are Listen, I uh this this
35:17 is good. This is good. This is This is a
35:20 I'm glad we're doing this because this
35:22 is not something I would have done on my
35:24 own.
35:26 I think it was meant that Oh, he was the
35:28 killer and blamed it on the monster. Oh,
35:31 maybe Danielle. Yeah, there you go.
35:34 Paying attention to to the actual story.
35:36 Got it. Yes. Good.
35:40 What you said, I think you're right.
35:47 To the void.
36:06 [Music]
36:16 [Music]
36:28 Nice color grading on this tile.
36:35 [Music]
36:55 [Music]
36:57 [Applause]
36:58 [Music]
37:04 What is that?
37:07 [Music]
37:09 [Applause]
37:13 [Music]
37:40 [Music]
37:49 [Music]
38:23 [Music]
38:34 Exit.
38:36 [Music]
38:43 [Music]
38:48 [Music]
39:12 We get used to everything, even to the
39:14 void.
39:15 That one was That one was super [ __ ]
39:18 depressing, but but it was quite
39:21 beautiful. And it was like I loved that
39:23 they shot it in a two 2.1 aspect ratio,
39:26 the super wide aspect ratio. I love that
39:28 everything was super grainy.
39:31 I simply can't can't follow stuff that
39:33 disjointed. Yeah, I know.
39:36 Um,
39:39 all right.
39:41 signal and then the grand prize winner.
39:58 [Music]
40:14 [Music]
40:23 0 0 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 5 5 8 8 13
40:34 [Music]
40:40 acid for carbon sugar spine.
40:48 Alpha alpha 4 4 2 2 set epsilon epsilon
40:55 2 2 38°
41:01 Come to us.
41:16 Huh?
41:17 All right. I'm having thoughts.
41:20 All right. The big grand prize winner.
41:28 Oh, wait. This is Oh, this is People's
41:30 Choice. Okay, this is People's Choice
41:32 then Grand Prize winner. So, here's
41:34 People's Choice.
41:43 [Music]
42:09 It's kind of cool,
42:16 huh?
42:46 We are in the
42:49 [Applause]
42:49 [Music]
43:04 Oh, that's not it.
43:09 [Music]
43:19 [Music]
43:28 [Music]
43:34 [Applause]
43:45 Yeah, I noticed that too, Vicki.
43:49 [Music]
44:05 All right, that was people's choice.
44:07 Yikes. The [ __ ] are we thinking, people?
44:14 All right, the grand prize winner.
44:18 >> Back up to go.
44:20 >> All right,
44:22 who just won the last ping pong match?
44:26 >> Does it taste like corn?
44:36 >> Okay, let's see. Um,
44:40 where do I start?
44:42 Um,
44:45 right. Yeah. Okay. I'm just going to jot
44:48 down the highlights
44:51 and you know, I may embellish here and
44:52 there, so don't expect this to be
44:54 totally accurate, but um, it'll be close
44:58 enough.
45:00 So,
45:02 my childhood,
45:04 [Music]
45:05 well, I remember we had a lot of cats.
45:10 I mean, a lot of cats,
45:12 >> like a lot.
45:13 >> And there was one big blue one we called
45:15 Big Jim.
45:16 >> It was great.
45:17 >> And potato chips. What else?
45:18 >> In the summer, we'd explore Granddaddy's
45:20 farm. And in the winter, too. But that's
45:23 when the ice trolls would come out.
45:27 >> They were friendly, though.
45:29 >> I just want to point something out. This
45:31 is This is that left feature.
45:35 So, here's the shot. summer we
45:38 >> in the summer and that's probably just a
45:40 kid walking on grass
45:43 >> or granddaddy's farm and in the winter
45:45 too but
45:46 >> right they just continue the shot and
45:48 now it's snowing that's pretty cool
45:49 >> that's when the ice trolls would come
45:51 out
45:53 >> they were friendly though
45:55 >> here we go
45:57 >> and I remember seeing a movie when I was
45:58 a kid that made me scared of sharks for
46:00 years but
46:02 I eventually got over that
46:06 I play video games like most kids. You
46:08 know, we had the latest consoles,
46:11 but I got out too. You know, my brother
46:14 and I, we played soccer at Mistress,
46:16 >> you know. I wonder
46:21 I wonder if this is real video footage.
46:26 >> Video games like most kids.
46:28 >> And then see all the steampunk [ __ ]
46:30 here. That's what got added in a left
46:33 maybe. You know, we had the latest
46:35 consoles,
46:36 but I got out, too. You know, my brother
46:39 and I, we play soccer at Mr. Sprinkles
46:42 Donut Park every year, and we live near
46:44 the water, so we'd catch crabs now and
46:46 then down at Lake Tangerine.
46:48 >> What you got,
46:49 >> our new baby crab?
46:51 >> We'd vacation at the beach sometimes,
46:53 and I remember one year all the rubber
46:55 duckies got turned around or lost or
46:58 whatever, and they all washed up on the
47:00 shore.
47:01 And I think that was the same year as
47:03 Pronto's Comet. When it flew over,
47:06 everything felt like a disco.
47:09 >> Yeah,
47:10 >> I remember I wanted to be a cowboy when
47:12 I grew up.
47:14 But I had a hard time riding horses, so
47:18 I changed my mind and decided I wanted
47:20 to be a wizard.
47:22 >> Every day I would practice my powers at
47:24 home
47:26 until eventually I got pretty good.
47:29 Maybe too good.
47:33 He was mean to you, wasn't he? And what
47:35 happened?
47:35 >> Accidentally turned my brother into a
47:36 toad one day, but he didn't really mind.
47:40 But I swore off my powers after the
47:42 incident with the neighbors,
47:44 and that was it.
47:47 So to avoid legal trouble, I ran away
47:49 from home into the desert where I found
47:52 this ancient temple with a portal
47:54 inside.
47:55 I remember stepping inside and just
47:58 walking and walking and walking
48:02 and that's it. That's all I remember.
48:06 Um, I hope that clears up any questions
48:09 about your old Paul.
48:12 At least until the time comes.
48:15 [Music]
48:23 Well, good luck.
48:28 [Music]
48:30 [Applause]
48:33 >> That was really clever. I guess
48:37 [Music]
48:45 yum. Yum.
48:51 Yeah, I have a feeling that one is
48:56 >> all these ones with the VHS timestamps
48:59 on them.
49:01 >> When it flew over, everything felt like
49:02 a disco.
49:04 >> Yeah.
49:05 >> Huh?
49:07 >> I remember I wanted to be
49:09 >> fascinating. Fascinating.
49:12 Well, what do you guys think?
49:17 You could see why this was number one.
49:19 Yeah, this one. This one by far had the
49:21 most storytelling and the most
49:22 creativity. Um, I would love to like
49:25 that guy. What's his name? Holden Boils.
49:28 I wonder if he's got a how I made it
49:30 video. Let's go look at look him up on
49:33 YouTube.
49:34 Vicki on YouTube. Um,
49:38 people's expectations are low. I agree
49:40 with that. Moral of the film festival,
49:42 don't use characters with beards. That's
49:44 pretty funny. Um, let's see. YouTube.
49:51 Let's look up his name.
50:17 This must be him.
50:40 Tik Tok question. Hang on.
50:43 Hey, someone stole AI salon on Substack.
50:47 Boohoo.
50:49 I don't know what that means.
50:56 Is LTX Studio any good? Um, it's
50:59 interesting.
51:01 LTX Studio is
51:04 Oh, tab. Share tab.
51:06 >> I'm not sharing anything, am I?
51:09 >> I am. Oh, here we go. Share this tab
51:11 instead. Um, I think this is his page.
51:17 Latest the hitchhiker. Is this him?
51:38 [Laughter]
51:47 I don't think that's AI.
51:50 Um
51:53 Huh. Not sure if this is him. Might be
51:55 him. Looks like him.
51:58 Anyway, um, black bar. Okay,
52:03 so let me give you my two cents on all
52:05 this.
52:07 Tell you where I think we are.
52:12 Just wait until the Oscars have an AI
52:14 category. Um,
52:17 they may have a year or two where
52:18 they've got a special category. I I
52:20 think it's going to be shortlived.
52:22 Here's here's kind of where I'm where
52:25 this is landing for me.
52:27 This is very much reminding me of when
52:30 digital cameras came out and they were
52:33 really shitty. There were people like
52:34 Casey Neistat that were making,
52:38 you know, crappy,
52:43 you know, sort of handedited
52:45 jankier than janky
52:48 storytelling that just looked weird and
52:51 out of place. and then until it didn't
52:54 right until it became a new aesthetic.
52:57 What what I find fascinating here is
53:01 there was clearly a mix of filmmakers
53:04 and non-filmmakers, but these the
53:06 filmmakers are clearly the early
53:08 adopters, right? And so and then and
53:10 then what you have is is you're going to
53:12 have mixed in here, you're going to have
53:14 people like Casey Neistat, the the AI
53:17 version of Casey Neistat
53:20 who just dive into using these tools and
53:23 they learn storytelling through making
53:26 videos for these contests and things
53:29 like that. So there's going to be a
53:31 whole class of creatives that are AI
53:34 native storytellers. then you're going
53:36 to have a whole class of of creators
53:40 that are former filmmakers that adopt
53:43 the tools and and you know use things in
53:46 a more like integrate things in a more
53:48 traditional sense. Um,
53:52 but it's kind of cool. Like the reason
53:54 the reason all those films had that '7s
53:57 experimental film vibe is like this
54:01 happened in the 70s too when when you
54:03 know video c or film cameras got small
54:05 enough that you could go, you know, that
54:08 that you didn't have to be a Hollywood
54:09 studio to afford them. You could just go
54:12 make films on 8 millimeter. That's you
54:14 saw all those early experimental late
54:16 60s early 70s kind of things. You saw
54:20 similar things in the 80s with VHS
54:22 recorders. You saw similar things in the
54:24 90s with digital cameras, right?
54:29 Fascinating.
54:32 Fascinating. Fascinating. Fascinating.
54:35 And Murphy, what's shaking?
54:39 Um, now that we had our movie, what's
54:41 for dinner? Nachos. That's nacho cheese.
54:45 Nachos and Hot Pockets. Hot pocket. Hot
54:49 pocket.
54:51 [Music]
54:58 Hang on a second.
55:25 Sorry about that. Hold, please. All
55:27 right. Neighbor was texting me. Uh, hang
55:31 on. Hold, please.
55:32 >> Be right back.
56:26 All right, I'm back. All right,
56:31 so
56:37 Fascinating times we're in. Fascinating
56:40 times.
56:46 It's funny where my head goes.
56:49 [Laughter]
56:55 My My head goes to
57:09 Someone someone said it today on one of
57:10 the calls
57:12 that we're in this liinal state. We're
57:14 in a liinal state between how things
57:17 used to be and how things are going to
57:19 be.
57:21 Um,
57:30 I think there's always going to be a
57:32 place for handcrafted storytelling,
57:36 but I suspect that this time next year,
57:40 you're going to be able to prompt a five
57:43 or 10 or 20 minute movie into existence
57:47 with dialogue, with sound effects, with
57:50 background ground music.
57:56 And
57:58 that the stage after that is you're
58:01 going to be able to prompt worlds into
58:03 existence that are populated with
58:05 characters.
58:08 And rather than
58:12 nailing down a linear narrative,
58:17 storytellers will publish worlds
58:21 where there can be many many stories
58:24 told within them. And that and that
58:26 maybe maybe movie making looks more like
58:29 entering a world and and
58:33 describing the story that you want to
58:35 follow or or or something like that.
58:38 think I don't know if y'all have heard
58:40 of there's a there was a play in the in
58:43 the '9s in New York called Tony and
58:45 Tina's Wedding and and there've been a
58:48 bunch of them since but basically it was
58:51 a play in a house
58:54 where the audience was split up in
58:55 different rooms and you could you b you
58:57 could follow a character throughout the
59:00 the two or three hours of Tony and Tina
59:03 getting married and it was depending on
59:06 the room that you were and you saw a
59:08 completely different play.
59:12 And so,
59:14 so what this feels to me like right now
59:17 is the current state of the art is
59:20 video tools are
59:24 not quite good enough to do fully
59:27 believable stuff, right? The acting is
59:30 shitty. There's inconsistencies. The the
59:33 dude with the beard looked like four
59:34 different people.
59:36 fires light spontaneously there. Like
59:39 like there's just a bunch of stuff
59:40 that's just [ __ ] weird, right?
59:44 And and about the time
59:47 that realism gets ironed out for
59:51 film production tools, that's when
59:53 you're going to see the emergence of
59:55 real time film making and real time
59:59 world generation.
1:00:02 So, so
1:00:07 Ah, it's crazy. [ __ ] crazy, man.
1:00:11 [ __ ] crazy.
1:00:15 [Music]
1:00:22 Nah, I'm not going to do that, Brandon.
1:00:25 But thank you.
1:00:27 Um,
1:00:29 I think what I'm going to do
1:00:32 is just call it an early night. I've got
1:00:35 a uh there's a weirdo walking around our
1:00:38 neighborhood, so I'm going to go deal
1:00:40 with that.
1:00:41 Um
1:00:45 weekend homework,
1:00:54 if you're so inclined,
1:01:00 because I'm I'm going to be doing this
1:01:01 this weekend.
1:01:03 If you're so inclined this weekend,
1:01:06 think about
1:01:09 if you were to enter a contest like that
1:01:11 runway contest or if you were going to
1:01:13 create something that you felt was
1:01:16 contestw worthy. It doesn't even have to
1:01:17 be a film. Maybe it's a writing contest.
1:01:19 Maybe it's a short story contest or a
1:01:24 illustration contest or something.
1:01:27 Maybe it's a an app contest.
1:01:32 What would you
1:01:39 what would you do?
1:01:42 Like what is something you're passionate
1:01:44 about that
1:01:52 that you could think about doing like
1:01:54 really excellent work in.
1:01:59 and you think about the
1:02:02 thing you'd want to create first
1:02:05 and then the technology was all
1:02:06 secondary. So rather than think about a
1:02:09 specific tool,
1:02:11 think about what is something that you'd
1:02:13 want to make or create
1:02:17 that you could really
1:02:20 have a strong point of view on, really
1:02:21 have a strong
1:02:25 creative vision for
1:02:29 and just start getting in touch with
1:02:30 that and and if you're inspired to start
1:02:33 something, then start something. But I
1:02:36 think the idea of taking time, taking a
1:02:39 moment to think about what do I actually
1:02:41 want to do? What's a story I would want
1:02:44 to tell? What's what's an app I would
1:02:46 want to build? What's a problem I would
1:02:48 want to solve that really resonates with
1:02:51 you in a way that
1:02:53 if you had to put in a week or two weeks
1:02:56 worth of work or a month's worth of work
1:02:59 or a year's worth of work?
1:03:02 What's a thing that you wouldn't get
1:03:04 bored of? What's a thing that you would
1:03:06 you would know what good looked like if
1:03:08 it showed up?
1:03:11 I think that starts to be it. Now, um,
1:03:14 if you're not part of the AI salon, you
1:03:16 should join the AI salon. And if you're
1:03:18 within the AI salon and you haven't
1:03:19 joined the mastermind, the whole point
1:03:21 of the mastermind is to get into these
1:03:23 deeper kinds of conversations and
1:03:25 connect with people that are also really
1:03:28 thinking about taking things to the next
1:03:30 level. Um, so if you go to the AI salon,
1:03:33 if you're new there, there's kind of a
1:03:34 sevenstep welcome process. So go through
1:03:37 those steps, look at past meetings,
1:03:39 things like that. Step seven is check
1:03:41 out the AI salon mastermind. If you
1:03:43 haven't joined it yet, it's worth
1:03:44 checking out. Um,
1:03:50 would you actually entered in a
1:03:51 competition? Stay safe. Thank you, Dr.
1:03:54 J. Um,
1:04:00 would I enter what in a competition?
1:04:13 Um, if you've got YouTube, if you've got
1:04:17 the YouTube app on your phone, if you go
1:04:20 to the AIL Learning Lab YouTube channel,
1:04:23 which is LearningLab- AI,
1:04:27 you can hype videos. So, go look at a
1:04:29 previous video like go to the live
1:04:31 section and find one of these videos and
1:04:35 uh you can in the lower lower right hand
1:04:39 corner I think is
1:04:43 a hype button. So, go hype hype things
1:04:46 up. Um
1:04:48 the the other thing I would encourage
1:04:50 you to do this weekend is just connect
1:04:52 with people, connect with your family,
1:04:55 be kind. It's kind of an intense week
1:04:57 kind of. It was a very intense week. Um,
1:05:04 AI is just tech.
1:05:07 Um, you know, I'm personally of the
1:05:09 belief that AI is tech that can actually
1:05:12 liberate us and take us to our
1:05:15 a higher plane of creative expression.
1:05:18 Um, but it's just tech.
1:05:21 So connect with the people that you love
1:05:23 and and be kind this weekend and think
1:05:26 about the kinds of things you're
1:05:27 passionate about and and then
1:05:32 in the coming weeks that that like
1:05:34 that's something I want to explore is
1:05:36 how do we start shifting this
1:05:38 conversation from here's the tools we
1:05:41 can use to what do we actually want to
1:05:44 do
1:05:46 and I don't know what that looks like
1:05:47 yet. So, all right. Sound like a plan?
1:05:51 Sound like a deal?
1:05:54 Fantastic, everybody. All right, get
1:05:56 your ass into the weekend. Have a good
1:05:58 weekend. Thanks for hanging out tonight.
1:06:00 All right, bye.