Computer to Pick Hollywood Movies for Development

[Tuckerfan]

I wonder if it’ll give movies a “2 USB Plugs up!”?

The idea comes from Ramesh Sharda, an information scientist at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, who has trained an artificial neural network to recognise what makes a successful movie (Expert Systems with Applications, vol 30, p 243).

And those of us who’ve been bitching about how the movies have been ditching good writing in favor of CGI will find this part comforting. :rolleyes:

The system cannot take into account the intricacies of the plot

How far off can Orwell’s “proletarian novel writing machines” be?

[Atticus_Finch]

@Tuckerfan

How far off can Orwell’s “proletarian novel writing machines” be?

Actually, I recently read a novel by model ADR-1025 “Dan Brown”.

[HPL]

Is the name of the computer “Awesom-O”?

[Evil_Captor]

Hmm, if it can’t follow the plot, it should do no better and no worse than your average movie producer nowadays!

Garbage in, garbage out, human or machine.