Director: The special effects are too expensive, so I had to make real shots

Chapter 19 is broken, he seems to really understand
A high-end residential area in Haicheng.

A greasy man in his 30s with a high hairline was sitting in front of the computer, watching the live broadcast of TOP TV with great interest.

He is Ma Yong, a well-known science fiction writer in China, the scientific consultant of the film "Love in the Stars", and also the original author of the novel.

"Heh, all you have to do is make some silly gimmicks, and even develop your own AI. Do you know what AI is?"

Ma Yong wanted to laugh when he saw Xu Nuo say in the live broadcast room that their company developed an artificial intelligence in order to shoot "Terminator".

This is obviously a routine used to fool netizens.

When Xu Nuo mentioned in the live broadcast room that the artificial intelligence they developed had the most advanced AI technology, Ma Yong laughed even louder.

He took out his mobile phone, opened the Weibo APP, and the editor sent out a Weibo——

"A young director, do you know what AI is?"

It also comes with a picture of a robot that he had previously asked an artist to customize.

Ma Yong didn't mean anything else, he just wanted to connotate Xu Nuo.

Soon, in Ma Yong's Weibo comment section, there are many fans of Ma Yong's book, as well as fans of the movie "The Love of the Stars", and fans of the male and female protagonists echoed the comments below.

"Who is the old horse talking about?"

"Dr. Ma, what is the connotation of this?"

"Did you mean Xu Nuo, the director of "Terminator"? I'm watching the live broadcast of TOP."

"People are in the live broadcast room, I feel that guy is quite good at bragging."

"I'm laughing to death, but also the world's top artificial intelligence, why doesn't he go to heaven."

"It's just to play with the popularity of Dr. Ma's "The Love of the Stars."

"I watched it. "Star Love" and "Terminator". Both science fiction movies will be officially released on June 6, right?"

"Released at the same time? When the time comes, let him shatter at the touch of a finger!"

"Dr. Ma didn't go to code, and put DISS people here again?"

"One thing to say, I saw the "Terminator" trailer, and it actually looks pretty good."

"When will Dr. Ma's new book be released?"

"I've never heard of the director Xu Nuo, and I've never heard of the actors used in the movie, most of them are talented."

"On June 6, please look forward to the release of the film adaptation of the same name of Dr. Ma's masterpiece "Love in the Stars"!"

Real film and television technology company.

In Xu Nuo's office, Xu Nuozheng and Zhang Chaowen chatted about the story behind "Terminator" in his TV TOP studio, from the artificial intelligence adaptation to the hard work of the crew, the seriousness of the actors, and the actual shooting of the camera.

There are already tens of thousands of netizens watching in the live broadcast room.

"Director Xu, I can see from your "Terminator" trailer that many scenes are actually filmed. Did we shoot the scenes in Yuzhou City?"

Zhang Chaowen continued to ask.

"That's right, we took the real shots in Yuzhou City. We didn't even use the studio very much. We basically used real shots."

Xu Nuo nodded slightly and replied.

"Are most of the shots real?"

Zhang Chaowen asked in surprise.

Now with the advancement of CG special effects technology, there are fewer and fewer directors who can insist on real shooting. After all, building a studio for shooting, and then using post-production special effects synthesis has become the mainstream of shooting film and television dramas.

"Yes."

Xu Nuo answered in the affirmative.

"Are the visual effects shots of explosions in the film real shots of real explosions?"

"We used a team of professional blasters and spent a lot of explosives to actually shoot every explosion scene in this movie."

"What about the robot in the trailer?"

"We also made models of robots in equal proportions, including spaceships, chariots, firearms, etc. in future wars. We also made a lot of model props."

Xu Nuo said calmly.

"It seems that Director Xu really likes real shots. Even artificial intelligence can actually do it, so traveling through time and space can't be real shots, right?"

Zhang Chaowen said jokingly, enlivening the atmosphere in the live broadcast room.

"Hahahaha, that's naturally impossible, but if we travel through time and space, we use Einstein's wormhole theory to construct the rendered space-time tunnel visual effect."

Xu Nuo said seriously: "After all, it is too expensive to produce top-notch special effects. The special effects we used in "Terminator" are actually not that many, and we still focus on real shots."

The reason why Xu Nuo said that special effects are too expensive is actually laying the groundwork for his company's future special effects business in the film and television industry.

"It's really not easy to shoot a lot of shots, and it's still a sci-fi movie. Let's take a look at what netizens on the Internet say. We can see that many netizens are very concerned about what you did for this "Terminator" Artificial intelligence, and some netizens questioned, saying how can you, a film and television company, produce artificial intelligence?"

Zhang Chaowen told Xu Nuo about the doubts of some netizens.

"In fact, artificial intelligence is not that difficult to do. Simply put, mathematics and computer programming technology are the foundation of artificial intelligence. At this stage, the AI ​​we use in the field of artificial intelligence is usually based on convolutional neural network algorithms. deep learning."

Xu Nuo began to tell those who doubted it from a professional perspective, whether he really understands what artificial intelligence is.

"It seems that Director Xu is very familiar with artificial intelligence-related knowledge?"

Zhang Chaowen asked with increasing interest: "Can you tell us about this convolutional neural network and deep learning?"

"no problem."

Xu Nuo nodded slightly, indicating that the professional counterpart is yes.

So I gave Zhang Chaowen and the audience in the live broadcast a brief science introduction: "The convolutional neural network algorithm actually imitates human visual perception, and we use the function of the convolutional layer to extract features from the input data.

There are multiple convolution kernels inside the convolution layer, and each element that makes up the convolution kernel corresponds to a weight coefficient and a bias, which is similar to a neuron of a feedforward neural network.

In this way, each neuron in the convolutional layer is connected to multiple neurons in the area close to the previous layer. The size of the area depends on the size of the convolution kernel. This is a "receptive field" that can be The analogy is the receptive field of our human visual cortex cells.

When the convolution kernel is working, it will regularly scan the input features, so in the receptive field, a matrix element multiplication can be performed on the input features to sum and superimpose the deviation——

So we can list a linear convolution formula: y(n)=x(n)*h(n)=∞∑k=-∞x(k)h(nk).

When the convolution kernel is of size f=1, step size S0=1, and does not contain a padded unit convolution kernel, the cross-correlation calculation in the convolution layer is equivalent to matrix multiplication, and thus is constructed between convolution layers a fully connected network”

Xu Nuo looked serious about popularizing science, very much like a professor in a university who is concentrating on class.

But Zhang Chaowen was already stupid.

He just stood there in a daze.

I thought, Director Xu, do you want to see what you are talking about?
In the TV TOP live broadcast room, the netizens were also completely dumbfounded, and the barrage "?????" has already swiped the screen.

"As a student majoring in artificial intelligence, listening to Director Xu's lecture on convolutional neural networks feels like returning to a university classroom."

"In fact, like the superposition of deviations that Director Xu said just now, this is to increase the number of solution steps and at the same time it does not provide convenience for the solution parameters."

"Abaaba???"

"I'm a good boy, Director Xu looks like a professional player at first glance!"

"Damn it, I'm dumbfounded. Did Director Xu study artificial intelligence before?"

"I just graduated from the artificial intelligence major. Let me give you a brief explanation. What Director Xu said probably means that the convolutional neural network algorithm can make the computer have a visual perception similar to that of a human, that is, image recognition, speech recognition, and machine translation. deep learning."

"The AI ​​painting that was popular before is a deep learning model of a computer."

In the live broadcast room of the film and television TOP, there is still a small poke of professionals who are more familiar with related technologies in the field of artificial intelligence.

When they hear Xu Nuo's science popularization, they will feel very cordial.

They even helped Xu Nuo give a more intuitive explanation to the other bewildered viewers in the live broadcast room.

At this time, Ma Yong, a sci-fi writer who was watching the live broadcast in Haicheng, felt his heart tightened suddenly. He felt that something was wrong, it was broken. This Xu Nuo seemed to really understand AI.

In the next second, Ma Yong immediately took out his mobile phone and clicked on Weibo, and deleted the Weibo that he had posted earlier that contained Xu Nuo at the speed of light.

Hey, as long as I delete Weibo fast enough.

If you slap him in the face, he won't be able to catch up with me!

(End of this chapter)