Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Pricing

Ben Arnon

👤 Person
144 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Lead With AI
How Showtime AI Plans to Reinvent Moviegoing by 2030—And Save Cinema Along the Way

I think you'd find, I think you'd feel like, like you're watching sort of a master chess player thinking like 20 moves ahead, but for movie pricing and scheduling, you know, what's happening under the hood is really a sophisticated ensemble of AI models that are working in concert.

Lead With AI
How Showtime AI Plans to Reinvent Moviegoing by 2030—And Save Cinema Along the Way

I think you'd find, I think you'd feel like, like you're watching sort of a master chess player thinking like 20 moves ahead, but for movie pricing and scheduling, you know, what's happening under the hood is really a sophisticated ensemble of AI models that are working in concert.

Lead With AI
How Showtime AI Plans to Reinvent Moviegoing by 2030—And Save Cinema Along the Way

I kind of call it orchestration and like our demand forecasting layer, for instance, ingests, this is kind of what I was talking about before it ingests everything from historical attendance to patterns of historical attendance to weather forecasts, to social media buzz, and even local events.

Lead With AI
How Showtime AI Plans to Reinvent Moviegoing by 2030—And Save Cinema Along the Way

I kind of call it orchestration and like our demand forecasting layer, for instance, ingests, this is kind of what I was talking about before it ingests everything from historical attendance to patterns of historical attendance to weather forecasts, to social media buzz, and even local events.

Lead With AI
How Showtime AI Plans to Reinvent Moviegoing by 2030—And Save Cinema Along the Way

I kind of call it orchestration and like our demand forecasting layer, for instance, ingests, this is kind of what I was talking about before it ingests everything from historical attendance to patterns of historical attendance to weather forecasts, to social media buzz, and even local events.

Lead With AI
How Showtime AI Plans to Reinvent Moviegoing by 2030—And Save Cinema Along the Way

So, you know, then our optimization engine uses reinforcement learning to simultaneously solve for multiple constraints. So distributor requirements. staffing availability, physical fear limitations, and all the while maximizing revenue potential.

Lead With AI
How Showtime AI Plans to Reinvent Moviegoing by 2030—And Save Cinema Along the Way

So, you know, then our optimization engine uses reinforcement learning to simultaneously solve for multiple constraints. So distributor requirements. staffing availability, physical fear limitations, and all the while maximizing revenue potential.

Lead With AI
How Showtime AI Plans to Reinvent Moviegoing by 2030—And Save Cinema Along the Way

So, you know, then our optimization engine uses reinforcement learning to simultaneously solve for multiple constraints. So distributor requirements. staffing availability, physical fear limitations, and all the while maximizing revenue potential.

Lead With AI
How Showtime AI Plans to Reinvent Moviegoing by 2030—And Save Cinema Along the Way

So I'd say think of it as like thousands of micro experiments that are running continuously, each one learning from real world outcomes and getting smarter with every single ticket that's sold.

Lead With AI
How Showtime AI Plans to Reinvent Moviegoing by 2030—And Save Cinema Along the Way

So I'd say think of it as like thousands of micro experiments that are running continuously, each one learning from real world outcomes and getting smarter with every single ticket that's sold.

Lead With AI
How Showtime AI Plans to Reinvent Moviegoing by 2030—And Save Cinema Along the Way

So I'd say think of it as like thousands of micro experiments that are running continuously, each one learning from real world outcomes and getting smarter with every single ticket that's sold.

Lead With AI
How Showtime AI Plans to Reinvent Moviegoing by 2030—And Save Cinema Along the Way

There you go.

Lead With AI
How Showtime AI Plans to Reinvent Moviegoing by 2030—And Save Cinema Along the Way

There you go.

Lead With AI
How Showtime AI Plans to Reinvent Moviegoing by 2030—And Save Cinema Along the Way

There you go.

Lead With AI
How Showtime AI Plans to Reinvent Moviegoing by 2030—And Save Cinema Along the Way

Yeah, I'd say that's super important with anything AI-related, especially on the LLN, the model front. The ethical line that we're constantly watching is accessibility and fairness in the movie experience. So dynamic pricing could easily become a system that makes movies accessible only to those with higher disposable income, let's say.

Lead With AI
How Showtime AI Plans to Reinvent Moviegoing by 2030—And Save Cinema Along the Way

Yeah, I'd say that's super important with anything AI-related, especially on the LLN, the model front. The ethical line that we're constantly watching is accessibility and fairness in the movie experience. So dynamic pricing could easily become a system that makes movies accessible only to those with higher disposable income, let's say.

Lead With AI
How Showtime AI Plans to Reinvent Moviegoing by 2030—And Save Cinema Along the Way

Yeah, I'd say that's super important with anything AI-related, especially on the LLN, the model front. The ethical line that we're constantly watching is accessibility and fairness in the movie experience. So dynamic pricing could easily become a system that makes movies accessible only to those with higher disposable income, let's say.

Lead With AI
How Showtime AI Plans to Reinvent Moviegoing by 2030—And Save Cinema Along the Way

But we've built guardrails into our system to really ensure that it doesn't just maximize short-term revenue, but actually considers long-term audience development. So, for example, we maintain affordability windows in every schedule and actually lower prices for certain segments rather than just raising them at peak times. Oh, okay.

Lead With AI
How Showtime AI Plans to Reinvent Moviegoing by 2030—And Save Cinema Along the Way

But we've built guardrails into our system to really ensure that it doesn't just maximize short-term revenue, but actually considers long-term audience development. So, for example, we maintain affordability windows in every schedule and actually lower prices for certain segments rather than just raising them at peak times. Oh, okay.

Lead With AI
How Showtime AI Plans to Reinvent Moviegoing by 2030—And Save Cinema Along the Way

But we've built guardrails into our system to really ensure that it doesn't just maximize short-term revenue, but actually considers long-term audience development. So, for example, we maintain affordability windows in every schedule and actually lower prices for certain segments rather than just raising them at peak times. Oh, okay.