Demis Hassabis and Darren Aronofsky met in 1999 when they were invited to speak at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London about the future of storytelling. At the time, Hassabis was a video game developer; today he is CEO of Google’s DeepMind AI lab and a Nobel laureate in chemistry. Aronofsky had released his debut feature Pi in 1998 and would go on to direct the Oscar-winning Black Swan and The Whale. Now, his new film company, Primordial Soup, is joining forces with Hassabis and DeepMind to produce short narrative films using AI. Three are already in the works.
德米斯•哈薩比斯(Demis Hassabis)和達倫•阿倫諾夫斯基(Darren Aronofsky)於1999年在倫敦的當代藝術學院(Institute of Contemporary Arts)相識，當時他們受邀就敘事的未來發表演講。那時，哈薩比斯還是一名電子遊戲開發者；如今，他已是谷歌(Google)DeepMind人工智慧實驗室的執行長，並獲得了諾貝兒化學獎。阿倫諾夫斯基於1998年推出了導演處女作《π》，此後又執導了獲得奧斯卡獎的《黑天鵝》和《鯨》。現在，他的新電影公司Primordial Soup正與哈薩比斯及DeepMind合作，利用人工智慧製作短篇敘事電影，目前已有三部作品在籌備中。