Potter Heads are Vexed! This AI Short Film Reviewing Harry Potter is Simply Absurd

Fans of Harry Potter who have finished reading The Cursed Child and A Journey through the History of Magic in the last two years now have a fresh chapter in the wizarding boy’s journey to keep them entertained—one provided to us by AI-generated text prediction rather than J.K. Rowling. Artificial intelligence (AI) is the emulation of human intelligence in devices that have been designed to behave and think like humans. The phrase can also be used to refer to any computer that demonstrates characteristics of the human intellect, like learning and problem-solving. The ability to reason and take actions that have the best likelihood of reaching a certain objective is the ideal quality of artificial intelligence. The three-page chapter, “Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked like a Large Pile of Ash,” was written by Botnik Studios after an algorithmic tool was trained on all seven of the children’s fantasy books. The resulting result is a story with a plot that, like any excellent fanfiction, feels soulless and meandering yet still bears a faint imprint of Rowling’s customary lilting whimsical appeal. Jamie Brew, a former writer for Clickhole and The Onion, is responsible for both the chapter and the predictive text algorithm, both of which are accessible on GitHub. His predicatively generated work, which includes predictive text X-Files scripts, Craigslist advertising, and grammar rules akin to Elements of Style, was previously published on the object dreams Tumblr. The line in the aforementioned Harry Potter extract was written with the assistance of several authors, who combined algorithmic suggestion with authorial judgment to create it. As a result, the chapter reads more like unusually creative fanfiction than the typical word salad of text prediction. It begins, “A wave of magically enhanced wind coiled across the castle grounds.” “The sky outside was a vast, blood-filled, black ceiling.” The situation becomes slightly more bizarre as Ron begins to tap dance maniacally, transforms into a pile of spiders, and tries to eat Hermione’s parents. Additionally, the password to their dorm door is changed to “BEEF WOMEN.” Another example. The entertaining short video was generated by the Reunion Creative Collective Agency and features visuals and animations produced by an AI engine. Since you may enter nearly anything and get some extra bizarre results, these A.I. generators have recently gained popularity online, especially when the software generates artwork and mashes together any bizarre photos it can discover online. The audio interview with Lillian, a 98-year-old woman who has just finished reading the first Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone book for the first time, serves as the foundation for this Hairy Pouter short film. She provides a review of it and responds to inquiries regarding the characters and the story’s development. Her comments were entered into the A.I. engine, which produced this quirky and amusing film. This contains some very creative images that would make very interesting book covers. It is a fun two-minute AI experiment. Numerous Harry Potter fanfictions are both of high caliber and explore absurd scenarios, such as those in which Voldemort is expecting. Fanfiction is frequently utilized by authors as a learning tool to get familiar with the language and world-building. The method Botnik employs, which it refers to as “collaborating with machines,” combines the inventiveness of numerous people with the ridiculousness of machines attempting to mimic us, and the outcome is occasionally, dare I say, is magical.