So... Hollywood decision making. Artificial Intelligence. That might become a thing, eh? Jay sent me an article about how some Hollywood studios were thinking of handing over the responsibility for deciding what movies to make to AI, and I felt like I should respond to the idea. I'm going to just say that as an analytical person, I am intrigued- from a purely programming perspective.  What sort of algorithm would they create to determine what movies to make?  Will it have numerical values assigned to various tropes, actors, words, locations, etc that will factor into equations that when added up will "equal" a successful movie? Would this algorithm then dictate casting choices, location choices... on set direction choices?  At what point would the decision making of the AI stop, and the human decision making process take over? Would we at some point see an AI being listed in the end credits as a Producer, and possibly a Director?  Heck... given the w...

Netflix has created a nice niche for itself as a purveyor of B-grade genre flicks, and we in The Basement applaud the move, as that's our bread and butter here. Some are better than others. Spectral was decent, The Open House not so much. A couple of weeks back they unleashed Tau, featuring the voice of Gary Oldman and It Follows and The Guest starlet Maika Monroe in a one-location sci-fi thriller about a kidnapped woman and a deadly AI.