translated from Spanish: What are you going to see? An artificial intelligence predicts which films are going to like

the Studio 20th Century Fox, in collaboration with Google, used an artificial intelligence to analyze movie trailers and try to anticipate what kind of public appeal each. The goal is to recognize if the productions whose trailers have structure, objects, and similar elements will share audiences.
“Understanding the detailed composition of the audience is important for studies that invests in unreliable stories in the commercial,” the researchers explained.

The research began with a frame by frame analysis the advance of Logan. Although it is essentially a history of superheroes, James Mangold film deals with dark themes and an argument that should attract a slightly different audience.

Prediction System (named “Merlin”) recognized a series of elements (as “trees”, “beautiful face” or “vehicle”) and their frequency in display. Using this information as a basis, the system broke down other movie trailers to predict what would you interested the audience that saw Logan.

The analysis of the trailer for Logan | Image: 20th Century Fox the results are irregular but satisfactory for a first approach to this application of technology. The information was compared with a list of the 20 films that viewers Logan also looked at the cinema (obtained through a survey). In the column on the left are the results of the survey and on the right the predictions of Merlin. As you can see, the artificial intelligence anticipated more than half of 20 productions, including the five most popular films among the public (though not in the correct order).

The results of Merlin | Image: 20th Century Fox Fox engineers explained that the information obtained by the artificial intelligence can also anticipate the genre of the film: a trailer with flat long is more likely to be a drama that a superhero movie, in which the action generates more regular cuts. Why it is relevant that Merlin has related Logan not only Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice or X-Men: Apocalypse, but also John Wick: Chapter 2, a film that shares some features beyond the action. Hollywood tries to predict our behavior as much as possible and reduce the risk. For now is clear that machines are not film, but the film industry begins to be bound again by the results of artificial intelligence.

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