Artificial intelligence and its invasiveness in our daily life could be constantly discussed between academics, government officials and social media provocateurs, but Los Angeles Comic Con injected a dose of gamma influence and staging in this debate.
Stan Lee entered the cat.
The Comic Con presents its Stan Lee experience, a stand of 1,500 square feet in the 200 aisle which presents a holographic image powered by the AI of the legend of late comics which interacts with the participants. Curious fans can ask questions of “Stan Lee” and to investigate decades of comics and comics that have been introduced in AI, which was drawn from images, conversations and even from the Stan Lee soap box – where Lee would extend the events of the day or the RIFF on 1980.
Chris Demoulin, Managing Director and Managing Director of the Comic Con Parent Comikaze Entertainment Inc., said that the Stan Lee AI project has taken months of planning and years of connection to the parties involved.
“For me, personally, one of the most exciting things in my whole life was to work with Stan Lee when it was Stan Lee’s comic strip and Stan Lee’s Commikaze before that. What was such joy was to watch him interact with fans. The old fans, then the people who brought their 8 -year -old kid who had just read their first comic strip.
“This avatar, for us, is an entry point into the world of narration he created. We wanted to create something that can be part of the maintenance and widening of this inheritance so that the role of Stan in the creation of this is recognized. ”
The hologram, at least that of the living room, is not Really a hologram. With a box built by Proto Inc.the company which also launched an interactive mirror from “The Conjuring” and HyperrealA company whose director general Remington Scott helped give life to Gollum and Smeagol for the films “The Lord of the Rings” by Peter Jackson and creates realistic avatars, it is an interactive Stan Lee image which deals with the questions and formulates the answers.
“The hologram is a different technology from it. It is no longer a presence of avatar, or a telepresence, if you want. Unlike Chatgpt, it is not a web robot. This is a large language model that has railings, ”explains George Johnson, member of the hyperreal technical team.
“These are specifically Stan’s words. Interviews on the red carpet, everything he wrote, like Stan’s soap box, but with railing. This means, if you ask him sporting questions or political questions, he will not answer them. But the Stan Lee universe nourishes us more and more things that we can add to the model. ”
David Nussbaum, founder and president of Proto Inc., knows that Stan Lee is only the first step in this technology.
“Any proto device can contain any content, and we also introduce live people. So if you interview someone in Japan, you can shine there and appear as if you were physically among them,” said Nussbaum. “These are ideal for classrooms, museums, laboratories, retail.”
Proto technology is also in accordance with HIPAA, he said, which means that doctors and patients can use it to have consultations “in person” without being in a room together.
As he learns, he can – as the AI poster – disappear a little out of the script. While behind the scenes said they did not want Stan Lee to be used as an advertising gadget, his manufacturers had asked him so many questions about Coca-Cola, that had changed his answer from a generic “I do not face this kind of thing” to a thoughtful answer where, at the end, Lee says: “Who would not want to be in business with the company that has made a hundred years?” “”
It was Stan – always the showman.
The Stan Lee experience costs $ 15 more service costs with tickets available to purchase via the The comic strip website. The Pop culture gathering takes place on Sunday at Los Angeles Convention Center.
