Few parts of popular culture show as much life right now as zombies, what with AMC’s “The Walking Dead” and the White Walkers stalking HBO’s “Game of Thrones” headlining a raft of shows featuring reanimated corpses. Now, an Irish startup has found a way to harness AI to create vast armies of the undead — or whatever else is needed — to bring virtual worlds to life.
“We solved the problem that art costs too much … (or) it takes too long for the entertainment and design industries, and we do it through better technology,” Artomatix CTO and co-founder Eric Risser said in a conversation with AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz. “So we’ve built an AI that can mimic human-like artistic creativity for very low-level, tedious kinds of artistic creativity.”