Sony Pictures has teamed with artificial intelligence (AI) agency IV.AI to bring the world’s first movie character powered by true AI on social media for their upcoming release Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, which arrives in cinemas on February 3rd.
Facebook users can match wits against The Red Queen by messaging the Facebook user The Red Queen on Facebook Messenger. In Russia, the feature will be available on Telegram.
True to the character that fans know and love, the Red Queen’s dismissiveness and attitude have been embedded in the personality profile of the experience using AI, so that the audience can have genuine interaction with the character.
In the experience, The Red Queen AI challenges fans of the franchise to test their Resident Evil knowledge and share their accomplishments. This unique messenger experience utilizes automated AI with built-in natural language processing in multiple languages, across a variety of social media platforms enabling fans of the films to interact with the Red Queen character in real time.
Using IV.AI’s sophisticated artificial intelligence ingestion system, the online experience has been created using Resident Evil scripts, films and writers from Sony Pictures Entertainment. Alongside this, IV.AI‘s natural language processing algorithms and emotional analysis based machine learning transforms this data into a natural feeling, interactive artificial character online.
Sony Pictures, EVP International Marketing Sal Ladestro explains, “As digital marketers and filmmakers, our goal is to find new ways to push the boundaries of emerging technologies in entertainment IP. Seeing the power of artificial intelligence collaborating with talented scriptwriters and filmmakers is just the beginning. We always strive to enable moviegoers to have unique experiences with our characters and this will set an industry standard of how to use messenger platforms to market our movies.”
The #ChallengeTheRedQueen experience is now love and is available to fans in the US, Australia, United Kingdom, Spain, Latin America, and Russia. Fans can find the experience through Facebook Messenger and Telegram by following the below URLs:
? English: m.me/TheRedQueenBot/
? Spanish (Latin America): m.me/LaReinaRojaBot/
? Spain (Castilian): m.me/LaReinaRojaES
? Russian: https://telegram.me/ObitelZlabot
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter opens on February 3rd, 2017.
