The Alan Smithee Round Table (“The Gartner Hype Cycle”)

Welcome to the next episode of our monthly round table podcast where hosts Scott Simmons, Katie Hinsen & Michael Kammes talk about the latest news in production, post production, entertainment tech and beyond. Among the conversations this week the gang discuss the Writer’s Strike, The Gartner Hype Cycle, the Metaverse and whole bunch of really cool things that will help us all in our post production endeavors. Enjoy the episode and don’t forget to subscribe. News: https://www.apple.com/final-cut-pro-for-ipad/ https://www.provideocoalition.com/final-cut-pro-for-the-ipad/ https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/01/tech/geoffrey-hinton-leaves-google-ai-fears/index.html https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/10/google-partners-with-adobe-to-bring-art-generation-to-bard/ https://www.today.com/food/trends/ai-generated-beer-commercial-viral-rcna82955https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ai-pizza-commercial https://www.provideocoalition.com/lets-talk-about-subscriptions/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/10/google-partners-with-adobe-to-bring-art-generation-to-bard/ https://thoughtful.withgoogle.com/about Writers Strike: https://www.themarysue.com/writers-strike-all-tv-shows-and-movies-affected-by-studios-refusing-to-pay-writers/ https://deadline.com/2023/05/tom-hanks-wga-strike-comments-gayle-king-1235360664/ https://apnews.com/article/wga-writers-strike-demands-d403f5b4666f20e2ce3e379bcaef5f2a Metaverse: https://www.businessinsider.com/metaverse-dead-obituary-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-tech-fad-ai-chatgpt-2023-5 https://www.thestreet.com/technology/mark-zuckerberg-quietly-buries-the-metaverse The Gartner Hype Cycle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/Gartner-hype-cycle One cool thing: Katie: https://www.writewithlaika.com/ Michael: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui, underscoring the tipping point of localized models for AI Scott: https://commandpost.io Title: “The thing before the thing”