IBM's Watson Made This Trailer for a Horror Movie, a First for an AI

And that fact is creepier than the actual spot

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Don't panic. They're not coming for our jobs anytime soon. But a computer has just created the first movie trailer designed with artificial intelligence.

Twentieth Century Fox asked the scientists at IBM to use the computing power of Watson, one of the most advanced AIs in the world, to create a trailer for its new horror movie about a terrifying AI named Morgan.

That's right, they made one of the world's most powerful AIs make an ad for a film about how terrified we all are of AIs.

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