Tuesday, November 14, 2017

‘Zombie Graph’ Charts How AI Brings Virtual Worlds to Life

Few parts of popular culture show as much life right now as zombies, what with AMC’s “The Walking Dead” and the White Walkers stalking HBO’s “Game of Thrones” headlining a raft of shows featuring reanimated corpses. Now, an Irish startup has found a way to harness AI to create vast armies of the undead — or whatever else is needed — to bring virtual worlds to life.

“We solved the problem that art costs too much … (or) it takes too long for the entertainment and design industries, and we do it through better technology,” Artomatix CTO and co-founder Eric Risser said in a conversation with AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz. “So we’ve built an AI that can mimic human-like artistic creativity for very low-level, tedious kinds of artistic creativity.”