Ben Affleck Sold His AI Company For $587M—This is His Prediction For The Future

The other thing I alluded to before, you sold AI company uh this year, Inner Positive >> to Netflix. I'm a [ __ ] Could you briefly explain to me what this thing does and why Netflix wanted it? >> Um, sure. >> I've always been kind of into computers since I was young. And then when film

started to move from film, analog film to digital, I became more interested in that aspect of it. And the visual effects workflow for many years has included machine learning. So I can write like pretty shitty Python scripts and stuff like that. Because with convolutional neural networks, which were the sort of precursors to what the

transformer can do, which is just much more computation simultaneously, that you would do things like look at what's called a tensor, which is just the numerical translation of a visual image, you know, in numbers like the batch number, the frame number, the the red, green, and blue values of each pixel in each frame. How many just that simple,

right? That numeric is called a tensor. and a tensor you use a convolutional neural network to identify patterns in that that would reveal like what's called uh edge detection or feature extraction which is just identifying patterns enough to know like this is where the window ledge is so we can more easily take the green screen you know

image out and replace it with something so that was sort of familiar to me early on because I prior to RS equity had a small visual effects company I'd worked with GPUs a lot too and the visual effects guys said hey You should see there's a couple of Google and this other company opening hour are doing

really interesting stuff with like transformers in video. So I have learned to be able to sort of you like I'm like oh I I I can actually just call up and go hey it's been a like can I come and see what you're doing and sometimes people say yes to my astonishment and so