The General Knight Rider thread.

[JoeZhang]

Same in Italy. Only on some historic cars.

Yeah - using the Ford website as a benchmark, cannot see anything that would take a hubcap...

 

[Christopher]

Well, I guess all this confirms my point, that any use of an LMM to generate car-stunt shots based on old footage would need human mediation to make sure the computer didn't simulate hubcaps flying off a modern car that didn't have any. Of course, I always favor using human artists as a rule, but LMMs/"AI" could be helpful at accurately simulating physical details to add texture and make a CGI car stunt look more realistic.

 

[JD]

Yeah, that's the kind of stuff AI should be used for, to help the human artists with a few shortcuts, not to totally replace them.
I think if you want to draw people into a show like Knight Rider, it would be better to make it less grounded. Cars can do so much now, that if you really want KITT to seem futuristic, you need to come up with bigger, more futuristic abilities.

 

[Skipper]

I think if you want to draw people into a show like Knight Rider, it would be better to make it less grounded. Cars can do so much now, that if you really want KITT to seem futuristic, you need to come up with bigger, more futuristic abilities.

Well, KR2008 had nanites that allowed it to transform. Could anything be more futuristic than that? Flying? It would become yet another CGI showcase, but on a TV budget. It's easier to make believable spaceships than cars.

 

[JD]

Yeah, that's the kind of thing I was thinking of.

 

[bdub76]

Yeah, that's the kind of stuff AI should be used for, to help the human artists with a few shortcuts, not to totally replace them.
I think if you want to draw people into a show like Knight Rider, it would be better to make it less grounded. Cars can do so much now, that if you really want KITT to seem futuristic, you need to come up with bigger, more futuristic abilities.

AI isn't there yet. There is more hype than reality.

 

[Christopher]

Well, KR2008 had nanites that allowed it to transform. Could anything be more futuristic than that? Flying? It would become yet another CGI showcase, but on a TV budget. It's easier to make believable spaceships than cars.

I could buy KITT having some kind of large auxiliary drone with wings and a tail that could fly down, attach around the frame of the car, and turn it into an aircraft. Maybe there could also be an attachment to turn it into a boat. (A crime-solving boat!)

I still say the most futuristic part is KITT himself, the sapient mind within the car. With all the hype about so-called "AI," it has no actual thought or cognition. The focus should be on KITT as a character, not just as a vehicle. A car that can reason, plan, emote, and be friends with its driver is just as futuristic today as it was in the 1980s.

 

[theenglish]

I like the idea of having an amphibious car that could operate as a boat/submarine even though that concept is as old as a James Bond movie from the 70s. A camouflage ability, albeit not the transformer idea, would be important. Also, the car should have some kind of off-road feature. A flying car idea is as old as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, but it would be interesting to see it done in a somewhat plausible way. I imagine there will be all kinds of jokes about the lameness of contemporary AI models.