News Summary

• The Runway AI festival showed 10 short films, created almost entirely with AI.
• The films were chosen from thousands of entrants and were appraised by a panel of judges.
• Ron Howard, director of "The Da Vinci Code" and "Apollo 13," was there for an introductory discussion.
• Some of the films were truly joyous.
• Many others had flimsy or overdone plot lines.
• The animated films seemed to perform the best with the crowd..
• The short's creator, Dave Clark, told me that it was a prologue to a longer feature that would be a "hybrid" of AI and live action.