A.I. simulates the culturally important experience of asking directors about superhero movies
According to this A.I., acclaimed and deceased auteur Ingmar Bergman thinks superhero movies “suck”
We live in a society that loves to ask the world’s most famous filmmakers what they think about superhero movies. This urge to learn Ridley Scott or Jane Campion’s opinion of movies about Superman shutting down a “world engine” says more about us than them. Nevertheless, since they refuse to validate our love for superhero movies, one real-life hero decided to create a bot that could generate what any director thinks of today’s most widely seen box office behemoths.
Verge reporter Adi Robertson, “in the name of journalistic efficency,” created a text-based artificial intelligence on A.I. Dungeon that simulates the one-of-a-kind experience of asking a revered director about Marvel movies.
That’s right. You can finally ask Ingmar Bergman what he thinks of the genre. It turns out he believes they “suck.” Even Captain America: The Winter Soldier? Et tu, Bergman? On the other hand, Federico Fellini, the maestro behind 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, and Juliet Of The Spirits, thinks, “They’re fun.”