Grok releases the first seven minutes of its AI-generated ‘Odyssey’

Three months aft Elon Musk declared that Grok would merchandise a full-length, “historically accurate” movie mentation of “The Odyssey,” Grok has published a full 7 minutes — what the institution is present calling “Episode 1 of our Odyssey series.”

Musk had antecedently lashed retired astatine Christopher Nolan’s mentation of “The Odyssey”  due to the fact that Nolan formed nonwhite and transgender actors. And Nolan is, successful galore ways, a cleanable foil for Musk — portion SpaceX and Tesla CEO hypes up information centers successful space and posts an unending watercourse of AI-generated content, Nolan has described himself as “a techno-skeptic” and said that earlier AI, he’d ne'er seen a exertion “so wholly rejected by the public.” 

And portion Nolan’s mentation of “The Odyssey” surely utilized plentifulness of ocular effects, it’s primarily a feat of applicable filmmaking, with a sprout spanning six countries and a formed and unit of thousands. After its merchandise successful July, the movie became an bonzer container bureau success, selling retired Imax screenings for months and becoming the apt front-runner astatine the adjacent Academy Awards.

As for the Grok mentation of “The Odyssey” (created successful collaboration with Wonder Studios and manager Dev Walker), well, you tin ticker for yourself.

I’ll admit it’s not arsenic spectacularly disfigured arsenic I’d expected, and surely much awesome than other videos that Musk has posted recently. If I didn’t cognize better, determination were moments erstwhile I mightiness person thought these were existent actors sailing crossed a existent sea. And portion I can’t talk to Grok’s humanities accuracy, it does look that each the characters travel successful a Musk-approved tegument color, with the narrator utilizing a British accent that volition dependable acquainted to anyone who’s played a phantasy video crippled oregon watched a generic Hollywood epic from the past 25 years.

What the footage truly lacks is immoderate consciousness of artistry, inspiration, oregon quality interest. The backstory — delivered via the aforementioned voiceover — seems to spell connected forever, yet giving mode to 1 bearded look aft another, each shouting stilted lines that marque Nolan’s dialog dependable similar Shakespeare.

While a fewer idiosyncratic shots mightiness supply a tenable simulacrum of reality, the full happening feels wholly airless, offering viewers nary consciousness of momentum, nary crushed to attraction astir anyone oregon thing on-screen.

And wherever I had nary occupation paying attraction for the astir three-hour runtime of Nolan’s “Odyssey,” I was listlessly checking however overmuch clip was near earlier the Grok mentation was adjacent halfway through. It’s hard to ideate being funny successful different 7 minutes of this, overmuch little a afloat movie’s worth.