Do AI video-generators dream of San Pedro? Madonna among early adopters of AI’s next wave

Making instant videos is the next wave of generative AI, much like chatbots and image-generators before it. And the pop star Madonna is among the early adopters. Madonna’s team used an AI text-to-video tool to make moving images of swirling clouds featured in her ongoing Celebration Tour. — AFP

Whenever Madonna sings the 1980s hit La Isla Bonita on her concert tour, moving images of swirling, sunset-tinted clouds play on the giant arena screens behind her.

To get that ethereal look, the pop legend embraced a still-uncharted branch of generative artificial intelligence – the text-to-video tool. Type some words – say, “surreal cloud sunset” or “waterfall in the jungle at dawn” – and an instant video is made.