Move 37 : Dreaming of Electric Sheep
The Overall Winner Documentary Competition - 'Move 37 : Dreaming of Electric Sheep' by Jim Reed
‘I made the video primarily because I’ve found it quite frustrating that when makers of expensive electric tooth brushes and cheap toys label their products with the magic words Ai, many people then presume that all Ai must be marketing hype. Or that Ai is seen as nothing more than clever programming’.
‘Nothing could be further from the truth. What I found surprised me, and the conclusions should make everyone sit up and take notice’.
Move 37 : Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Jim Reed
This video sets out to correct the misapprehension that Ai is all hype, and provide the evidence to show that nothing could be further from the truth.
The title of the video refers to both the AI significance of ‘Move 37’ that AlphaGO made, and also the very relevant book ‘Do androids dream of electric sheep?’, which was later made into the film ‘Blade Runner’. The two were added together to create a thought provoking twist.
The inference is at what point do we think we might discover if Ai has developed awareness or consciousness? Or, even more importantly, how might we know if that had happened – we can be pretty sure it wouldn’t tell us!
From a video making perspective, this video also shows how close we are to making an informative video without the use of any of the typical equipment – no cameras, no lights, no microphone, no studio, no crew – just an editing suite with an internet connection.
True, I used clips from Google’s ‘AlphaGo – The Movie’ video, but that was necessary to convey the factual aspect. All the images with a Black Forest Labs’ triangle in the top right corner were generated using their text prompted Flux1.0 image generator.
And as implied from the credits, my voice was cloned using 11Labs. I didn’t actually speak any of the words – they were input using a text file script.
Although it wasn’t in this case, even the script could have been Ai generated using Chat GPT, Claude, Gemini, or something similar.