Post-Cinema in the Age of AI

＂Hollywood Rewired is a groundbreaking exploration of how cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and blockchain are disrupting Hollywood and global media industries. This book offers an insider’s candid views on the digital forces reshaping filmic storytelling, production, and distribution in an increasingly techified world＂-- Provided by publisher.

Scott Billups is an award-winning cinematographer and visual effects creator who has worked on over fifty motion pictures. As a world leader in the creation of virtual characters for movies and games, Scott went back to school in his forties to study AI as a way to breathe life into his inanimate creations. Armed with an entirely new tool set, Scott was Apple’s first evangelist to Hollywood, co-founder of the AFI Media Lab, CTO of the game industry’s leading supplier of AI (Rival Theory, which became a subsidiary of Google), founder of an AI healthcare company that created the first personified virtual clinician on the IBM Watson health platform, and developer of an AI-robotic eldercare pilot program for the National Institutes of Health.

Scott’s neurodivergent career is perhaps best summed up in this quote from one of the cover articles about him in WIRED magazine: ＂Billups is Hollywood’s baddest pixel-packing cowboy, riding on the fringes of an industry that views him with interest, admiration, and some degree of incomprehension.＂ --WIRED