This is scary in a Michael Crichton-ish sci-fi sort of way: two AI chat programs are made to talk to each other and the resulting dialogue gets pretty rough.

So here’s a science fiction scenario which I believe nobody ever wrote about: In a near future, machines achieve self-conscience. But rather than deciding to ‘save’ Earth from mankind or put people to use as AA batteries, etc., machines will engage instead in fraticidal tribal warfare. I mean, imagine that computers and OSs become bigger zealots than some of their fanboys (and perhaps encouraged so by their makers).

If you are a writer, you’re welcome to use this premise and get successful with it. I’ll take no royalties. But some kind of tip would be nice.

If you happen to be around Venice, Italy next Friday (September 2nd) night, be sure to check out a screening of Change Your Habits Today at the Circuito Off Film Festival.

Yes, it may be true moneymaking necessities made my filmmaking career take a backseat to multimedia and hired video stuff, but it’s not entirely out yet. In fact, I’m ready to announce that I expect to have new film called Damião will be ready for premiere by the end of September. More on that soon.

Almost one year on, people are doing all kinds of crazy stuff with the Kinect. This video is probably the most impressive demo I’ve seen so far (the ‘most impressive’ stuff starts halfway through, so be sure to stay with it). CDM

A History of the Title Sequence, by Jurjen Versteeg. Made as a meta title sequence. Fubiz