Wang Chuandong: With Lenovo’s AI innovative productivity tools, artistic creators will surpass imagination

[ Gearbest Technology News]”Entering the era of human-machine co-creation, the ultimate challenge for film creators is how to surpass imagination in the AI ​​era. Lenovo hopes to empower filmmakers and creators to achieve a new form of 'human-computer symbiosis' through AI productivity tools and intelligent agent services.” On September 9, Wang Chuandong, Vice President of Lenovo Group and Chief Marketing Officer of China, attended the “7th Hainan Island International Film Festival·Lenovo AI Film Season”. He specifically shared Lenovo's views on “AI+ creation” at the press conference.

(Wang Chuandong, Vice President of Lenovo Group and Chief Marketing Officer of China)

“The 7th Hainan Island International Film Festival Lenovo AI Film Season” is directed by the Hainan Island International Film Festival Organizing Committee and hosted by Today Art Museum AI Art Innovation Alliance (AIAIA) and Lenovo Group. This is also the first time that AI films have appeared at the Hainan Island International Film Festival as an innovative unit. On the same day, Wang Chuandong and Zhang Baoquan, founder and chairman of Today Art Museum, Lu Chuan, a famous Chinese director, screenwriter, producer, chairman of Beijing Ape Power Pan Entertainment Group and founding chairman of AI Movie Week, Fei Jun, professor of art and technology at the School of Design of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Lu Rongzhi, planner, trendy artist and doctoral tutor, Shu Lu, head of author ecology of Quark AI, Xing Tianyu, official representative of Hainan Island International Film Festival and other guests, as well as nearly a hundred industry colleagues and media from across the country, witnessed this historical moment.

(Executive Director of Today Art Museum Yan Yan announced the start of the event)

In the past two years, AIGC has made the leap from text generation to multi-modality, from visual reproduction to dynamic narrative, and has become a force that cannot be ignored in film creation. The release of the “Seventh Hainan Island International Film Festival Lenovo AI Film Season” is not only a simple move to add units, but also a “start-up statement” for the next century. Zhang Baoquan said: “We hope that through cooperation with the Hainan Film Festival, we can truly realize 'AI as the blade and humanity as the soul' and create a new imaging ecology that everyone can participate in and express.”

(Zhang Baoquan, founder of Today Art Museum and chairman of Today Art Museum)

Lu Chuan shared his observations on AI images from a director's perspective: “AI is not here to replace us, it is here to expand us. It makes 'impossible' visions possible and 'dare-to-think' stories to be presented. This time, what we are trying to do is not a technical competition, but a creative revolution.”

(Lu Chuan, a famous Chinese director, screenwriter, producer, chairman of Beijing Ape Power Pan-Entertainment Group, and founding chairman of AI Movie Week)

Lenovo is the co-organizer of this AI movie season. Wang Chuandong said, “Lenovo AI PC has five cores and is a super content engine and creative partner for content creators.” Specifically, it includes embedded personal agents based on personal large models that can achieve natural interaction, local heterogeneous AI computing power with CPU+GPU+NPU, embedded personal knowledge base, connected to the open AI application ecosystem, and protection of personal privacy and data security.

Among them, the personal intelligence agent Tianxi, which was previously released by Lenovo, is a next-generation human-computer interaction system that can help users generate scripts and storyboards, greatly speeding up film creation. Wang Chuandong said, “Tianxi personal super intelligence has integrated more than 1,000 AI applications. Whether it is text, poster or video production, 'having one machine in hand' is equivalent to 'having a strong team.'” In addition, he also introduced that Lenovo AI workstation can realize local deployment of full-blooded large models. With strong computing power support, efficient workflow, etc., it has provided support for top film post-production teams in China and even the world.

In order to empower more creators with AI tools, Lenovo launched the “AI Pioneer Creator Program” two years ago. It has successively established the AI Digital Art Exploration Laboratory with Communication University of China, established the Lenovo Yuanchuang AI Imaging Laboratory with director Lu Chuan, and jointly launched the International Digital Art Lenovo Competition with Sunshine Media Group. Wang Chuandong said, “Lenovo hopes to Through AI innovative productivity tools, artistic creators can create works beyond imagination.” At the same time, he also announced that he will launch two “AI Pioneer Creator Programs”, including “Lenovo Today's AI Art Lab” and “72-Hour AI Micro Film Hackathon” to collect works from global AI creators and explore new possibilities for AI-driven film innovation.

Focusing on the core concept of “AI technology as the blade, art and humanities as the soul”, Fei Jun proposed that the “AI Movie Season” emphasizes the four-fold concept of “international vision, artistic foresight, humanistic warmth, and co-creation by all people”, aiming to break technical barriers, broaden the boundaries of creation, convey emotional value, and lower the threshold of creation.

(Fei Jun, professor of art and technology at the School of Design, Central Academy of Fine Arts and rotating chairman of AIAIA)

This “Film Festival” has opened a global call for films and has three major review units. The special review unit was opened by Lu Rongzhi, including the 72-hour AI micro-film hackathon project, the Let the world be filled with AI-Lenovo special project, and Conch AI·My Life Movie. It aims to form an experimental and universal image community.

(Planner, fashion artist, doctoral tutor Lu Rongzhi)

At the press conference, Xing Tianyu, the official representative of the Hainan Island International Film Festival, said that 2025 is a critical year for the customs closure of the Hainan Free Trade Port. The film festival will closely follow the country's development orientation for the free trade port and adhere to the core goal of “high-level opening up” to allow international filmmakers to gather in Hainan, high-quality film and television projects to cooperate in Hainan, and world movie fans to party in Hainan. The film festival will welcome creators of the new era with an open attitude and explore the integration of imagination and technological innovation.

(Xing Tianyu, official representative of Hainan International Film Festival)

“The 7th Hainan Island International Film Festival Lenovo AI Film Season” is not only an exploration and expansion of creative techniques, but also an in-depth response to “what is film, what is creation, and what is humanities?” In the 130th year since the birth of movies, we handed over “editing” to neural networks and “color grading” to GPUs for the first time, but we still stubbornly wrote “author” as: human. What we are writing is not a technical appendix, but a main chapter of art history.

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