The cult film "The Wizard of Oz" will get a new life thanks to Google's generative artificial intelligence. This is reported by Mashable, writes UNN.
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The updated film will be shown for the first time in the ultra-modern entertainment complex The Sphere in Las Vegas.
This is the first time that The Sphere will broadcast not a specially shot video, but an existing film. The task turned out to be extremely difficult: to adapt the classic film to a 16K screen with more than 170 million pixels.
"The power of generative AI, combined with Google's infrastructure and experience, is helping us achieve something extraordinary," said Jim Dolan, Executive Chairman and CEO of Sphere Entertainment, in a press release. "We needed a partner who could push the boundaries with our teams at Sphere Studios and Magnopus, and Google was the only company capable of handling this task on the world's highest resolution LED screen," he added.
To transform the film, Google enlisted DeepMind teams and used models from the Gemini line - in particular, Veo 2 and Imagen 3. The algorithms not only scaled the video, but also expanded the original scenes, adding new backgrounds and details that were not in the original frame. Thus, viewers will see much more than the director intended.
"Very, very, very large and very, very, very complex," The Wall Street Journal quotes Google's Director of AI Foundation Research, Stephen Hickson, as saying. - There are scenes where the nose is scary in size with 10 pixels."
In the past, generative models have been criticized: for example, after a viral video where AI reimagined scenes from Andrei Tarkovsky's films. Social media users stated that this distorts the author's vision.
Despite possible concerns, the successful screening of "Oz" could open up new opportunities for the use of AI in filmmaking - and start a new era of interaction between technology and classical art.
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