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This AI Can Automatically Animate New Flintstones Cartoons
Gizmodo ^ | April 13, 2018 | Andrew Liszewski

Posted on 04/13/2018 6:49:30 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain

The Flintstones, a cartoon about life in the Stone Age, has just surpassed The Jetsons, a cartoon about life in the distant future, when it comes to technological innovation. Researchers have successfully trained artificial intelligence to generate new clips of the prehistoric animated series based on nothing but random text descriptions of what’s happening in a scene.

A team of researchers from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, trained an AI by feeding it over 25,000 three-second clips of the cartoon, which hasn’t seen any new episodes in over 50 years. Most AI experiments as of late have involved generating freaky images based on what was learned, but this time the researchers included detailed descriptions and annotations of what appeared, and what was happening, in every clip the AI ingested.

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Computers/Internet; Science; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: ai; computers; flintstones; technology; theflintstones; thejetsons

1 posted on 04/13/2018 6:49:31 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
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'The Stones, I love the Stones. I watch them whenever I can. Fred, Barney...'
2 posted on 04/13/2018 6:51:53 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Ciaphas Cain
Just for sh!ts and giggles what would their AI do if they fed it that infamous Winston cigarette ad featuring the Flintstones?
3 posted on 04/13/2018 7:04:18 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Islamophobic? NO! IslamABHORic)
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It won’t be long before AI will be able to gather hundreds or thousands of pictures of you off the internet and be able to completely fabricate a film of you doing anything, anywhere at any time.

The FBI or the CIA will be able to create proof that you committed a crime that any jury will believe is real. And most experts will not be able to tell the difference.

It is probably already possible.

4 posted on 04/13/2018 7:04:45 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
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To: Ciaphas Cain
Cactus juice and cigars.
5 posted on 04/13/2018 7:06:15 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: Impala64ssa

LOL, even Itchy and Scratchy did their own cigarette ad....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzBoqZ826NE


6 posted on 04/13/2018 7:12:52 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Finally!

A useful application for AI....


7 posted on 04/13/2018 7:16:40 PM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: dfwgator
Itchy and Scratchy, I remember, sick stuff 😛
8 posted on 04/13/2018 7:17:37 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Islamophobic? NO! IslamABHORic)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Yaba-Daba-Doo!!!!!


9 posted on 04/13/2018 9:05:29 PM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks Ciaphas Cain. More fraudmaking tools for the Corrupticrats of the Clinton Cabal and Soetero's gang of thugs.

10 posted on 04/13/2018 9:13:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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It’s called a TV control.


11 posted on 04/13/2018 11:53:09 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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Great. Now Hollywood can recycle-reuse old content to rehash even more pablum.

“I is a animator gooder than Hannity-Barbra!”


12 posted on 04/14/2018 3:30:58 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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...hasn't been made in over 50 years...

That may be true for the original show, but there were a few spinoffs.

Like:

The Flintstone Comedy Hour

The Flintstone Comedy Show

The Flintstone Funnies

The Flintstone Kids

Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo

Fred and Barney Meet The Thing

Fred Flintstone and Friends

The New Fred and Barney Show

The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show

13 posted on 04/14/2018 3:42:27 AM PDT by j. earl carter
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