'This project is a glimpse at what thoughtful, creative, artist-led use of AI can look like' — George Washington meets Google DeepMind, as Darren Aronofsky’s AI history series hits YouTube

• Darren Aronofsky and Google DeepMind have launched an AI‑driven Revolutionary War series on Time’s YouTube channel
• On This Day… 1776 uses AI‑generated visuals to recreate key moments from American history
• The series also incorporates human voice actors and traditional techniques

Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky's latest project melds history with AI, and is rolling out on YouTube starting this week. On This Day… 1776 dropped the first of its short-form videos on Time's official channel as a collaboration between Aronofsky’s AI‑focused venture Primordial Soup, Google DeepMind, and Time Studios. Each episode pairs traditional voice acting and production with AI‑generated visuals to dramatize moments from the American Revolution’s defining year, timed to release on the 250th anniversary dates of each event.

The series is starting with two stories. The first covers George Washington raising the Continental Union Flag in Somerville, Massachusetts ...