Brin: Singularities, Nightmares, and Japanese Sci-Fi

[Alberto Monteiro]

Julia Thompson wrote:
>
>> Eventually expert 
>> systems will enable a single person to do the work of a team, and not 
>> long after that AI's will be capable of reading a script and then 
>> generating a feature film without any human input.
> 
> Just seeing what the time decrease has been in 3 years for static 
> digital art, I believe you.  Your timeline may not be quite right, 
> but Moore's Law plus software improvements plus more software 
> specially written for the purpose will lead there.
>
"The Sims 2" (the only reason I still use Windows at home) includes
a very large range of movements, and they are triggered by
only a few commands. Maybe that's the near-future of animations:
a Sims2-like interface, and reprogram an action into more detail
whenever necessary.

Alberto Monteiro