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4.5 years ago when we said "AI is the next great artform" it didn't make sense to people! We at Fable have been working to bring together the communities of games/movies/creative technologists and the AI community for 5 years. We love it! It is SO IMPORTANT for these two communities to understand each other, and for the games/movies/creative technologists not simply to see ourselves as recipients of what pure AI companies 'give' us - we can become the leaders in AI ! We have felt in the games/movie/creative tech community a dramatic loss of confidence in the last year, about the rise of AI - a fear that the age of Hollywood and games is passing - for the age of the pure AI company. Ridiculous! Perhaps the time of pure AI companies is passing, and the time of applied AI companies, built by games/movie/creative technologists is coming. After all, we can all see that the underlying tech and data pure AI companies have provided/controlled is becoming commoditized and open sourced. Tech often overplays it's hand when it comes to games/movies/creative technologists - after all, AOL acquired Warner Brothers - and Warners ate AOL's money up happily. ("A decade ago, America Online merged with Time Warner in a deal valued at a stunning $350 billion. It was then, and is now, the largest merger in American business history. The Internet, it was believed, was soon to vaporize mainstream media business models on the spot" NYT) Applied AI from creative tech companies could well be where value lies! Don't lose confidence - Hollywood could use AI to remain the centre for film and TV for the next century. Games could use AI to power radical new experiences! After all, the pure AI companies are working on AI to build - interactive synthetic reality characters - game-like simulations - digital art creation for artists - animation for filmmakers Doesn't that sound like territory the games/movie/creative technologist community understand best, let's take the pure AI companies' tech, advance our own artistic goals and build better tech! The leading 3D tech researcher in the 70s left academia to build Pixar after all! The pure AI community is giving us a great start - but we can be practitioners and leaders bringing our own understandings of tech and art to the rapidly commoditizing early creative AI tools they have provided - and take things forward! LET'S BUILD! vimeo.com/313038866