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Niessner: AI will eventually generate full blockbuster movies directly from books

Matthias Niessner · Fireside Chat: Victor Riparbelli (Founder & CEO, Synthesia) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark) · May 24, 2021 · at 23:26

Matthias Niessner, co-founder of Synthesia, outlines his long-term generative AI roadmap during a Data Driven NYC fireside chat.

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“In the long run, what I see is you basically can generate a whole movie or something like this from just a book, right? So you kind of, you're helping Hollywood in a sense creating fully featured blockbuster films just by looking at some texts.”

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