Welcome to the Cloud Wars Minute — your daily cloud news and commentary show. Each episode provides insights and perspectives around the “reimagination machine” that is the cloud.
In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, I share how an iconic 1939 film is being used to demonstrate the scale and potential of AI-powered innovation.
Highlights
00:19 — At the opening night of Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas, there was a special preview of a remarkable partnership between Google, its parent company, Google DeepMind, its AI research team, Sphere Entertainment, which owns and operates the Sphere venue in Las Vegas, Warner Brothers, and a couple of other companies.
01:14 — “The Wizard of Oz” was created in 1939, in black and white. They had to use AI to reimagine this, because the Sphere is a hemispherical screen, 160,000 square feet. The technical challenge: How do you get this movie to be shown on something almost unimaginably bigger? They not only had to redo the formatting of the film, but they had to create new context, new content all around it.
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03:29 — This is going to change how the entire film industry thinks. It’ll have it thinking more and more about a world without limitations that AI is going to help us achieve. CEOs can either choose to continue with their business, to recreate the past in a slightly better, faster version, or completely recreate their own future here.
04:44 — Do we have the courage, confidence, and vision to be able to step out and imagine: What does our business need to be like going forward? What are customers going to expect? What will they reward us for in this new world, where so many things with AI are now possible?
