IDG Contributor Network: AI goes to the movies to identify content you will want to watch

The digital technology and media and entertainment industries are beginning to come together to solve a common problem—how to extract, unlock, harness and make better use of the massive amounts of video content and data they produce. Anyone who has ever appeared in or produced a movie, commercial or business video is aware that many times a good portion of the footage winds up on the proverbial cutting room floor. The same is true of digital data. It is estimated that more than 80 percent of enterprise data is considered “dark”—created but never used.+ Also on Network World: Machine learning proves its worth to business + What if there were a way to pick up this data equivalent of cutting room discards and turn them into new assets? What if technologies such as IBM Watson could work with video editors to unearth data treasures that benefit and excite both producers and audiences? Sounds like the plot to a blockbuster movie, but it is now more fact than fiction.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here