{"id":28850,"date":"2026-10-13T20:36:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T01:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28850"},"modified":"2026-10-13T20:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T01:39:17","slug":"world-builder-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28850","title":{"rendered":"World Builder revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I showed Bruce Branit&#8217;s iconic short film <a href=\"youtube.com\/watch?v=QP3YywgRx5A\">World Builder<\/a> to my VR class at NYU. Considering it was made nearly two decades ago, it is astonishing how prescient it is.<\/p>\n<p>I think that&#8217;s because the world we are gradually entering, where A.I. does seemingly magical things for us, is actually an approximation of a world that had already existed. For millenia, designers and master have relied on assistants to help them realize their creations.<\/p>\n<p>A.I. at its best will approximate that kind of relationship. The end goal of A.I. is to allow each of us to become a master creator, limited only by our own unique vision.  That is the future we seen in Bruce Branit&#8217;s landmark film.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why it resonates so profoundly. Also, it&#8217;s a really good film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I showed Bruce Branit&#8217;s iconic short film World Builder to my VR class at NYU. Considering it was made nearly two decades ago, it is astonishing how prescient it is. I think that&#8217;s because the world we are gradually entering, where A.I. does seemingly magical things for us, is actually an approximation of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28850\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;World Builder revisited&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28853,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28850\/revisions\/28853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}